Josh Cornelissen – Hoops Habit https://hoopshabit.com NBA News, Rumors, Analysis, Opinion and Stats Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.20 New York Knicks: 3 reasons a Donovan Mitchell trade hasn’t happened yet https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/22/new-york-knicks-mitchell-trade-hasnt-happened/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/22/new-york-knicks-mitchell-trade-hasnt-happened/#respond Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:39 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447733 The New York Knicks approached this summer, looking to go big game hunting. They moved some money (and contracts) around to free up the space to sign point guard Jalen Brunson, who is easily the best player to change teams in NBA Free Agency this summer. They did so while keeping the cupboard stocked for […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/22/new-york-knicks-mitchell-trade-hasnt-happened/feed/ 0 NBA Free Agency: Grading all 30 teams on trades and signings https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/16/nba-free-agency-grading-teams-trades-signings/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/16/nba-free-agency-grading-teams-trades-signings/#respond Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:00:02 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=446578 Free agency is often a time of tumult and chaos, as players fly around the league to new homes and teams look vastly different than they did a few weeks earlier. It’s Extreme Makeover: NBA Edition. While this summer featured one blockbuster trade for Rudy Gobert, and the prospect of other trades still hangs overhead, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/16/nba-free-agency-grading-teams-trades-signings/feed/ 0 3 free agents still available for the Golden State Warriors to sign https://hoopshabit.com/2022/07/31/free-agents-golden-state-warriors/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/07/31/free-agents-golden-state-warriors/#respond Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:00:23 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447214 The Golden State Warriors are still riding high off their NBA title, their fourth in eight years, and a monumental step in the writing of their dynasty’s history. Yet, at the same time, the NBA calendar plods along, and they have had to move quickly to retool the roster during the NBA Draft and free […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/07/31/free-agents-golden-state-warriors/feed/ 0 2022 NBA Draft Grades for all 15 teams in the Western Conference https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/24/2022-nba-draft-grades-west/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/24/2022-nba-draft-grades-west/#respond Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:00:18 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=446178 The 2022 NBA Draft is in the books. After countless hours of preparation from teams, of traveling to see prospects in person and watching innumerable hours of film, from evaluating athleticism and skill and situation and fit and potential, the draft has finally come and gone. Across 58 picks, the teams of the NBA divvied […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/24/2022-nba-draft-grades-west/feed/ 0 NBA Trades: 3 teams that should have interest in Kyrie Irving https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/21/nba-trades-kyrie-irving-interest/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/21/nba-trades-kyrie-irving-interest/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:00:37 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=446146 Kyrie Irving is one of the most talented players in the NBA. Few players have his deep bag of offensive moves, from stepback jumpers to impossible layups spinning off of the glass. When Irving has the ball in his hands, what he creates is very often magical. On the other hand, he is also one […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/21/nba-trades-kyrie-irving-interest/feed/ 0 3 offseason moves for the Miami Heat to stay strong https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/31/moves-miami-heat-strong/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/31/moves-miami-heat-strong/#respond Tue, 31 May 2022 12:00:28 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=445465 The Miami Heat were a Jimmy Butler three-pointer away from the NBA Finals. Let that sentence sink in. The rest of the Eastern Conference is looking in the mirror and asking itself difficult questions, or (in the case of the Boston Celtics) preparing to play in the NBA Finals. The Heat fell short, but it […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/31/moves-miami-heat-strong/feed/ 0 3 reasons the Brooklyn Nets won’t win the NBA title https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/17/brooklyn-nets-nba-title/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/17/brooklyn-nets-nba-title/#respond Sun, 17 Apr 2022 10:00:32 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=443670 The Brooklyn Nets have had a chaotic season, having to claw their way into the playoff bracket as the seventh seed. From a long-term injury to Kevin Durant, to Kyrie Irving being ineligible to play over half the season, to James Harden pouting his way out of yet another NBA city, the Nets haven’t had […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/17/brooklyn-nets-nba-title/feed/ 0 3 reasons the Golden State Warriors will not win the title https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/31/golden-state-warriors-not-win-title/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/31/golden-state-warriors-not-win-title/#respond Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:00:27 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=443573 The Golden State Warriors have won three of the last seven titles in the NBA. They went to five straight NBA Finals. The core of those teams – Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and Andre Iguodala – are all on this year’s Golden State squad. Sitting at fourth in the Western Conference, they deserve […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/31/golden-state-warriors-not-win-title/feed/ 0 Ranking 10 NBA stars returning from injury by playoff importance https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/14/nba-star-returning-injury-important/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/14/nba-star-returning-injury-important/#respond Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:00:02 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=442826 The NBA standings don’t care about context. They tell you how many wins and how many losses a team has accrued, and that dictates their standing in the playoff race. They don’t tell you how a team looked during the game, how much luck was involved, and whether or not a team was missing key […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/14/nba-star-returning-injury-important/feed/ 0 NBA Trade Deadline: Grading all 30 teams on their trades https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/12/nba-trade-deadline-grades/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/12/nba-trade-deadline-grades/#respond Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:00:08 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=441910 The NBA Trade Deadline is a flurry of excitement and activity every year. Speculation and rumors swirling, smokescreens pumped out en masse, and at least a couple of trades coming out of nowhere to mix in with those we predicted weeks and months in advance. The 2022 NBA Trade Deadline has passed, and it was […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/12/nba-trade-deadline-grades/feed/ 0 NBA Trades: 3 more trades to continue the Trail Blazers’ roster overhaul https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/10/nba-trades-trail-blazers-overhaul/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/10/nba-trades-trail-blazers-overhaul/#respond Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:00:55 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=441636 The Portland Trail Blazers have clung to the middle of the NBA standings for years now, occasionally winning a playoff series, but generally just perpetuating a cycle of competing without contending. That isn’t a bad life to live, but at some point, the organization needs to take a different path. They took a step in […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/02/10/nba-trades-trail-blazers-overhaul/feed/ 0 Ranking the Top 5 games of Klay Thompson’s career https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/09/top-5-klay-thompson-games/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/09/top-5-klay-thompson-games/#respond Sun, 09 Jan 2022 11:00:04 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=440203 941 days. That is how much time will have passed for Klay Thompson when he takes the court on Sunday evening. 941 days since he tore his ACL in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. More than 30 months. The Golden State Warriors have played two entire seasons, plus 38 games of a third, without […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/09/top-5-klay-thompson-games/feed/ 0 NBA Coaches Hot Seat Watch: 5 coaches at risk of being fired https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/07/nba-coaches-hot-seat-fired/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/07/nba-coaches-hot-seat-fired/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:00:44 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=438975 The job of an NBA head coach is an unforgiving one. It involves insanely long hours, intense stress, grueling travel schedules, and a merciless spotlight. If a team succeeds, the credit usually goes to the star players. If they struggle, it’s the head coach more likely to lose his job before the players; you need […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/07/nba-coaches-hot-seat-fired/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 NBA MVP Ladder Week 4: DeMar DeRozan makes his unexpected debut https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/19/nba-mvp-ladder-week-4/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/19/nba-mvp-ladder-week-4/#respond Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:00:10 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=438252 Sometimes I wonder why we even bother watching the games. It was clear and obvious before the NBA season began what was going to happen. Everyone knew the Washington Wizards and Chicago Bulls would be 1-2 in the East, that the Golden State Warriors would win 12 of their first 14 games, and that the […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/19/nba-mvp-ladder-week-4/feed/ 0 Ranking all 30 NBA jerseys: Which team reigns supreme? https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/17/ranking-nba-jerseys/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/17/ranking-nba-jerseys/#respond Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:00:05 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437855 The NBA game is a visual game. There are strategic decisions, plays run, and thousands of tiny details to be followed below the surface. Yet at the end of the day, the NBA is such a popular product because of the visuals – the dunks, the crossovers, the celebrations, the shoes, and especially the jerseys. […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/17/ranking-nba-jerseys/feed/ 0 NBA MVP Mountain Week 3: Stephen Curry leads the rankings https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/11/nba-mvp-mountain-curry-leads/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/11/nba-mvp-mountain-curry-leads/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:00:25 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437820 It’s popular around NBA circles to characterize a ranking of players inside of a season as a “ladder”. The NBA.com does their popular “Rookie Ladder” and other sites layout MVPs, Most Improved, and even teams on a “ladder” to rank them. That doesn’t make any sense. Ladders don’t take much effort to climb, and it’s […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/11/nba-mvp-mountain-curry-leads/feed/ 0 NBA Power Rankings Week 2: Scorching hot Miami Heat and what scares me https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/31/nba-power-rankings-week-3-scorching-heat/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/31/nba-power-rankings-week-3-scorching-heat/#respond Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:58:46 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437241 The NBA season hits its first major holiday, Halloween, with every team having played between five and seven games. That’s still a very small sample size, but it’s enough to start seeing which teams are substantially different than they were a season ago. Presumed contenders have stumbled out of the gate, and all three of […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/31/nba-power-rankings-week-3-scorching-heat/feed/ 0 NBA Power Rankings Week 1: Lakers woes and other first impressions https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/25/nba-power-rankings-week-1-lakers-woes/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/25/nba-power-rankings-week-1-lakers-woes/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:20:36 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437042 Welcome back to the NBA Power Rankings, where for the first time we have actual regular-season basketball games to take into account when ranking the league’s 30 teams. We can chuck the projections (err, to an extent) and rely on cold, hard facts to order these teams. The Chicago Bulls lead the league with a […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/25/nba-power-rankings-week-1-lakers-woes/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 Power Rankings 3: Giannis for MVP and bold predictions for every team https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-power-rankings-3-giannis-mvp/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-power-rankings-3-giannis-mvp/#respond Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:00:43 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436783 The NBA offseason is officially over. Players have been drafted, signed, traded and waived. Training camps were conducted, media days were covered and holdouts begun and ended. The preseason games have all been played and premature champions crowned. Now it’s time for basketball to begin. The NBA’s 75th Anniversary season tips off on Tuesday night […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-power-rankings-3-giannis-mvp/feed/ 0 NBA: Off-season weakness each star should have worked on https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-off-season-weakness-star-worked/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-off-season-weakness-star-worked/#respond Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436620 The NBA is where amazing happens, where the league’s brightest stars draw us in with dunks and blocks and impossible shots. The very best players are incredible combinations of talent, skill and athleticism, and compared to a normal fan they are the peak of basketball perfection. When compared to one another, however, weaknesses start to […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/18/nba-off-season-weakness-star-worked/feed/ 0 NBA Power Rankings 2: Jordan Poole leads breakout candidates https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/10/nba-power-rankings-2-jordan-poole/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/10/nba-power-rankings-2-jordan-poole/#respond Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:47:49 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436494 The NBA is back! Preseason games kicked off a week ago and we have seen most, yet not all of our favorite players scoring, dishing and dunking (we see you, John Collins). NBA teams have played anywhere from one to three games, with some squads like the Cleveland Cavaliers playing a somewhat normal rotation and […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/10/nba-power-rankings-2-jordan-poole/feed/ 0 NBA Power Rankings Preseason Edition: Lakers moves lead the way https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/04/nba-power-rankings-preseason-lakers/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/04/nba-power-rankings-preseason-lakers/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:00:32 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436110 Even with a condensed offseason, basketball cannot come back soon enough. The NBA Draft and flurry of free agency activity are in the rearview mirror, as is NBA Summer League. While September provided plenty of drama around the league, from Ben Simmons to the Minnesota Timberwolves to vaccine conversations, we are all ready to have […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/04/nba-power-rankings-preseason-lakers/feed/ 0 NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/02/nba-30-nba-players-forgot-acted-movies-tv-shows/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/02/nba-30-nba-players-forgot-acted-movies-tv-shows/#respond Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:00:37 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=435630 The National Basketball Association is a league of stars. Incredibly talented individuals step onto the brightest of stages and appear on the screens of millions of fans. It makes sense, therefore, that for as long as the NBA has been around its stars have made the leap from the hardwood to Hollywood. LeBron James is […]

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