All-Time Lists – Hoops Habit https://hoopshabit.com NBA News, Rumors, Analysis, Opinion and Stats Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:00:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.20 Ranking the NBA’s small market teams https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/14/ranking-nba-small-market-teams/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/14/ranking-nba-small-market-teams/#respond Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:00:26 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447488 The NBA is perhaps the second-most international league in major North American sports, right after baseball. Baseball is popular in both East Asia and Central/South America, football is really only played in the 50 states, the MLS is a minor league compared to the European giants and doesn’t even register on most American’s radar, and […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/14/ranking-nba-small-market-teams/feed/ 0 Selecting the Los Angeles Lakers’ Mount Rushmore https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/13/los-angeles-lakers-mount-rushmore/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/13/los-angeles-lakers-mount-rushmore/#respond Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:00:07 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447455   With so many great players throughout the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 75-year history, determining which were the best of the best can be difficult. This has sparked debates about who the greatest Lakers of all time are, and who would be on a hypothetical Los Angeles Lakers Mount Rushmore. There would only be four spots, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/13/los-angeles-lakers-mount-rushmore/feed/ 0 One Final Game: The last great performance for NBA legends https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/30/one-final-game-the-last-great-performance-for-nba-legends/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/30/one-final-game-the-last-great-performance-for-nba-legends/#respond Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:00:53 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=438396 The NBA provides a window into the rise and fall of superstars. More so than the brief schedule of the NFL or the unathletic hiding places of baseball, basketball and its 82-game seasons provide us a picture of players growing from rookie to star, and then on the back end of their career going from […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/30/one-final-game-the-last-great-performance-for-nba-legends/feed/ 0 Ranking the 75 best players in NBA history for 75th anniversary https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/19/ranking-75-best-players-nba-history-75th-anniversary/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/19/ranking-75-best-players-nba-history-75th-anniversary/#respond Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:16:18 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436777 The NBA is celebrating its 75th Anniversary season this year. Some have quibbled whether that should be the right number, as it was technically called the “BAA” or Basketball Association of America for three seasons, but that’s the accounting the NBA has gone with as part of their much-marketed 75th Anniversary. As part of the […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/19/ranking-75-best-players-nba-history-75th-anniversary/feed/ 0 NBA: One player you forgot played for your favorite team https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/28/nba-one-player-forgot-played-favorite-team/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/28/nba-one-player-forgot-played-favorite-team/#respond Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:00:54 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=434661 As another cycle of NBA free agency movement comes and goes, it is easy to overstate how impactful each of these transactions will be going forward. Every move is reacted to as if it is franchise-altering. In reality, many of the players brought into a new team will be looked back on in years and […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/28/nba-one-player-forgot-played-favorite-team/feed/ 0 NBA: The 25 worst players to ever win Rookie of the Year https://hoopshabit.com/2021/05/15/nba-25-worst-players-ever-win-rookie-year/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/05/15/nba-25-worst-players-ever-win-rookie-year/#respond Sat, 15 May 2021 11:00:20 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=427397 The NBA Rookie of the Year award is ultimately not worth anything. It’s rarely an indicator of meaningful impact, nor does it tend to reflect winning in any way. It’s usually a reward for the player who racks up the most combined points, rebounds and assists. Then why does it matter? Because even though it […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/05/15/nba-25-worst-players-ever-win-rookie-year/feed/ 0 NBA Draft: 30 greatest No. 1 overall picks in league history https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/24/nba-draft-best-picks/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/24/nba-draft-best-picks/#respond Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:00:16 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=426424 The NBA Draft is a moment of hope for so many franchises, their chance at turning the pain of losing into the balm of future success. Until each draft selection becomes a player, it is a source of hope, of mysterious promises. The first pick in the draft is a limitless well of that hope, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/24/nba-draft-best-picks/feed/ 0 NBA: 30 best careers from players who skipped college https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/03/nba-best-careers-high-school/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/03/nba-best-careers-high-school/#respond Sat, 03 Apr 2021 11:00:47 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=425542 Nearly every kid playing basketball holds the same dream: to one day play in the NBA. The path for the lucky few blessed with the requisite level of talent is long and hard, and for most American players includes playing college basketball. Some players skipped that step, leaping straight from high school to the NBA. […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/04/03/nba-best-careers-high-school/feed/ 0 Ranking the five greatest defenders in NBA history https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/27/nba-history-5-greatest-defenders/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/27/nba-history-5-greatest-defenders/#respond Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:00:45 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=425536 As he is wont to do, Draymond Green caused a bit of a stir within the basketball world with his recent comments regarding his personal ranking amongst the pantheon of the NBA’s all-time elite defenders. As a guest on NBC Sports Bay Area’s Dubs Talk podcast, Green was asked to elaborate on which current players […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/27/nba-history-5-greatest-defenders/feed/ 0 NBA: The 25 best NBA players never to make an All-Star game https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/14/nba-25-best-nba-players-never-make-star-game/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/14/nba-25-best-nba-players-never-make-star-game/#respond Sun, 14 Mar 2021 11:00:18 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=423656 The NBA All-Star Weekend is the best of all the major sports. No other sport can offer the combination of the game itself — especially with its revamped Elam-ending competition last season — and the secondary events, from the Dunk Contest to the 3-Point, Skills and even Rising Stars contest. Basketball benefits from its relatively […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/14/nba-25-best-nba-players-never-make-star-game/feed/ 0 50 greatest NBA players to never win a championship https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/07/50-greatest-nba-players-never-win-championship/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/07/50-greatest-nba-players-never-win-championship/#respond Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:00:07 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=424110 Throughout the course of NBA history, great players have won championships. Some have won more than others, with Bill Russell leading the Boston Celtics to an unprecedented 11 titles and Michael Jordan winning a record six Finals MVP awards during the Chicago Bulls’ sole run of dominance. Just a single championship can alter a player’s […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/07/50-greatest-nba-players-never-win-championship/feed/ 0 NBA: Ranking the 30 best players to win NBA Finals with 2 or more teams https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/06/nba-ranking-the-30-best-players-to-win-nba-finals-with-2-or-more-teams/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/06/nba-ranking-the-30-best-players-to-win-nba-finals-with-2-or-more-teams/#respond Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:00:36 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=423105 It is quite an achievement to win an NBA Championship. This is the goal of every player who makes it to the league and only a select few win one every season. Even rarer is the group of players that have won titles for multiple franchises. In fact, there are only 43 players to have […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/03/06/nba-ranking-the-30-best-players-to-win-nba-finals-with-2-or-more-teams/feed/ 0 NBA: 30 most unguardable moves in league history https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/27/nba-unguardable-moves-league-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/27/nba-unguardable-moves-league-history/#respond Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:00:12 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=422336 The NBA has seen a wide array of deadly moves on the offensive end from its star-level players.  Roughly 130 years ago, a Canadian physical education teacher named James Naismith invented a silly game in which teams lob a ball into peach baskets to score points. In the time since the game has evolved into […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/27/nba-unguardable-moves-league-history/feed/ 0 Ranking the 30 best NBA seasons from players over 35 years old https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/23/nba-best-seasons-michael-jordan/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/23/nba-best-seasons-michael-jordan/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:00:32 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=422302 The NBA is a young man’s game. That is, the league is constantly experiencing an influx of talent, players with increasingly more skill and athleticism nurtured by advancing technology and medicine. Players’ personal athleticism peaks in their mid-20s, and physically things begin going downhill from there. Every year something around 50-to-70 players enter the NBA […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/23/nba-best-seasons-michael-jordan/feed/ 0 Each NBA team’s most clutch player of all-time https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/04/each-nba-franchise-most-clutch-player-all-time/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/04/each-nba-franchise-most-clutch-player-all-time/#respond Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:46:34 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=331583 In the NBA not all points are created equal. Perhaps mathematically two points scored at the beginning of a game are the same as two points scored at the end, but basketball is not purely a game of math. It’s a game of emotion, of narrative, of players rising to meet the pressure of a […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/02/04/each-nba-franchise-most-clutch-player-all-time/feed/ 0 Best NBA Player from every Power 5 School https://hoopshabit.com/2020/12/13/best-nba-player-every-power-5-ncaa-school/ https://hoopshabit.com/2020/12/13/best-nba-player-every-power-5-ncaa-school/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=413113 These are the best NBA players from every Power 5 NCAA school Some NBA greats never played college ball in the U.S. — LeBron James, Dirk Nowitzki, and Kobe Bryant, just to name a few. But the vast majority of NBA legends were, at one point or another, collegiate legends. And a lot of those […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2020/12/13/best-nba-player-every-power-5-ncaa-school/feed/ 0 The 5 most iconic hairstyles in the history of the NBA https://hoopshabit.com/2020/04/12/the-5-most-iconic-hairstyles-in-the-history-of-the-nba/ https://hoopshabit.com/2020/04/12/the-5-most-iconic-hairstyles-in-the-history-of-the-nba/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:00:36 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=392987 The NBA is built upon style and swagger and has seen some iconic hairstyles through the years. Here are the five most iconic. Alright, if you’ve clicked into this article then you know, as well as we all do, that times are tough right now. There are no NBA games at a time when the […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2020/04/12/the-5-most-iconic-hairstyles-in-the-history-of-the-nba/feed/ 0 Could Klay Thompson become second-best shooter ever? https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/27/golden-state-warriors-could-klay-thompson-become-the-second-best-shooter-ever/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/27/golden-state-warriors-could-klay-thompson-become-the-second-best-shooter-ever/#respond Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:00:20 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=373609 In eight NBA seasons, Klay Thompson has shown his expert-level marksmanship. But has he done enough to be considered the 2nd-best shooter ever? Since the 2014-2015 season, the Golden State Warriors have won three NBA Championships and 73 games during the regular season — 2015-16. While their historic run was not completely successful with two Finals losses, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/27/golden-state-warriors-could-klay-thompson-become-the-second-best-shooter-ever/feed/ 0 Each NBA team’s best trade in franchise history https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/16/nba-teams-best-trade-franchise-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/16/nba-teams-best-trade-franchise-history/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:00:28 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=370303 For NBA teams, trades are the easiest way to improve your franchise while also massaging the egos of the GM’s that execute them. These are the best ones. There are three ways an NBA team can improve its roster: signing a free agent away from another team, drafting a player out of college, or trading […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/10/16/nba-teams-best-trade-franchise-history/feed/ 0 NBA: Best player and coach pairing from each team’s history https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/16/nba-best-player-coach-pairing-teams-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/16/nba-best-player-coach-pairing-teams-history/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:00:44 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=366802 Here are the best coach/player duos in each NBA team’s history.We have seen so many great duos throughout NBA history. From Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant to Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, All-Star pairings have dominated the league. Players always receive the most credit but what about the best player/coach combinations? It can be argued […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/16/nba-best-player-coach-pairing-teams-history/feed/ 0 Each team’s best NBA Jam duo of all time https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/09/teams-best-nba-jam-duo-time/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/09/teams-best-nba-jam-duo-time/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:00:59 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=368419 NBA Jam is a video game that ascended from the mere ranks of arcade options to the hallowed halls of a cultural pillar. To stand at an NBA Jam machine at the arcade and pull off a thundering dunk on your opponent’s head was the dream of countless children, teenagers and yes, adults in the […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/09/09/teams-best-nba-jam-duo-time/feed/ 0 NBA: Who is the best duo from each franchise’s history https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/26/nba-best-player-duo-from-each-franchise-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/26/nba-best-player-duo-from-each-franchise-history/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:00:54 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=363354 The NBA’s history is littered with dynamic duos who led their teams to both regular season and playoff success. These are the best for each team. The whirlwind circus that was the 2019 NBA offseason saw a number of the league’s best players join forces to create what could be some of the most fearsome […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/26/nba-best-player-duo-from-each-franchise-history/feed/ 0 The 30 greatest NBA team rivalries in league history https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/05/30-greatest-nba-team-rivalries-league-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/05/30-greatest-nba-team-rivalries-league-history/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:00:51 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=363895 Rivalries of any kind are one of the special things that make sports so great, especially when it comes to the NBA’s greatest rivalries of all time. The idea that a game means more than what the final score may indicate can bring out so much in an athlete — both positive and negative — […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/08/05/30-greatest-nba-team-rivalries-league-history/feed/ 0 NBA: Greatest head coach in each team’s franchise history https://hoopshabit.com/2019/07/19/nba-greatest-head-coach-teams-franchise-history/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/07/19/nba-greatest-head-coach-teams-franchise-history/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:00:58 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=359254 For a league with a history of star players, the men on the sidelines mattered, too. The very best head coaches in each NBA team’s history are an elite group. The NBA is a league of star personalities. To tell its history is to talk about Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2019/07/19/nba-greatest-head-coach-teams-franchise-history/feed/ 0 NBA mascot power rankings, best past and present https://hoopshabit.com/2019/07/17/nba-mascot-power-rankings-best-past-present/ https://hoopshabit.com/2019/07/17/nba-mascot-power-rankings-best-past-present/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:00:08 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=361065 Which NBA mascots are the best? In the macro, sports mascots have very little bearing on the fans’ in-stadium/arena experience. If you’re at a game and you’re being suffocated by the smog of the most obnoxious, self-aggrandizing spectators or if the game you’re watching causes your eyelids to get a little heavier, a person dancing […]

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