Sep. 10: Yesterday we asked hoops fans to tell us what NBA storylines they grew tired of hearing about over the summer as well as what items they felt may have flown under the radar. Not surprisingly, the Knicks came up as one of the teams most heavily discussed.
Between the ongoing Carmelo Anthony saga, controversy surrounding Kristaps Porzingis and the eventual dismissal of Phil Jackson, New York has been as much a part of the public’s consciousness this summer as any.
In contrast, a few teams that quietly did work this offseason were the Kings and Hornets. Will Sacramento’s shrewd draft and Charlotte’s gamble to bring Dwight Howard back under the tutelage of a former coach equate to noticeable improvements in 2017/18? It’s hard to imagine otherwise.
Yesterday I wrote that I’d pull from our own Hoops Rumors database to get a handle on some of the coverage trends that we’ve relayed over the summer.
As expected, the Knicks were the team that we covered the most over the course of the period ranging from the day after the NBA draft up until yesterday. Following the Knicks were the Cavaliers and, as one reader suspected, the Celtics. Rounding out the top five were the Clippers and Rockets.
Of the top five all but the Knicks made significant roster moves and, of course, two of those moves were blockbuster trades involving another team in the top five.
For science, here are the teams ranked 1-30.
- Knicks
- Cavaliers
- Celtics
- Clippers
- Rockets
- Timberwolves
- Lakers
- Heat
- Kings
- Pacers
- Mavs
- Bucks
- Hawks
- Warriors
- Jazz
- Nuggets
- Nets/Thunder/Pelicans
- Pistons
- Suns/Bulls/Wizards
- Sixers
- Raptors
- Spurs
- Hornets
- Magic
- Grizzlies
- Trail Blazers
Sep. 9: The NBA offseason can be a fascinating thing, this summer especially considering all of the blockbuster moves that went down. Inevitably, however, the excitement of the rookie draft and the ensuing start of the league’s free agency period gives way to the doldrums of August and September.
Now that the whirlwind of player movement has started to slow down, it’s a good time to reflect back on the weeks that were, as well as on the coverage that surrounded them.
We here at Hoops Rumors pride ourselves on being a repository of NBA news, earth shattering or trivial, whether that means bringing context to the Kyrie Irving trade mere minutes after news broke or updating minor storylines that few outside of a niche group would ever find particularly riveting.
As such, the archive of Hoops Rumors stories serves as comprehensive database of all headline-worthy items big and small that transpired over the course of the summer, an analogue of the highs and lows of the NBA news cycle.
Our question to you, on this quiet Saturday night in September, is what teams did you grow tired of hearing about this offseason? What teams did you feel flew under the radar of the hoops community at large?
We’ve compiled a list of the teams that pinged our radar the most over the offseason and, generally speaking, it’s not hard to guess which teams got the most coverage. There were some items that the NBA media wrote about ad nauseum while others barely caused a ripple.
Before we unveil specifically what teams took up the most real estate in our pages, however, we figured we’d field a bonus question to see if our community could guess which teams we talked about the most this summer and which teams we talked about the least.
Weigh in below!
If I never hear about Carmelo Anthony and the Rockets again, it will be too soon.
This.
Though I’m not a Knicks fan, I do like New York, and Melo… but it was just way too much. Nothing at all has actually happened between Carmelo and the Knicks in 4 months, yet we’ve gotten like a hundred articles on it.
Probably the most over-covered story all year
The Grizzlies suddenly got interesting. Miami went from 11-30 to 30-11 and coverage & opinions seem to vary wildly. Why does Portland not trade for a major frontcourt player. Don’t bother bringing up Melo unless there is information on what Houston is waiting for; we know the story otherwise. Are the Lakers going to jump on George or put him off waiting on James. That will be funny.
As a Celtics fan, I loved seeing all the content relevant to me that was out there, but there was enough of it I could see it bothering me as a fan of another team. Not like the content wasn’t necessary, but I could see it being too much for someZ
Sacramento seemed to not be talked about much even with a great draft.
I’m sick of hearing about Houston and New York and Melo trade talks. I think Sacramento and Charlotte had really good offseasons that no one payed attention to.
What I said was addressed, thanks Austin
Y’all should try and write a piece about the teams that were discussed the least like 21-26 on that list
Cleveland the most.
Orlando the least?.
I’m surprised the Bucks were at 12 considering the small market size and lack of moves or rumors this offseason. I guess some stuff swirled around about Jabari for a couple days, and the package that may have been discussed with CLE for Irving leaked, but they didn’t have a huge draft or make major moves this offseason. I didn’t even see that much coverage of them.
So is this going to be used for some sort of internal standards review? Or are you guys just gonna go “oh I guess we did talk about the Knicks too much” and then do the same thing next year?
I do think the Knicks had plenty of stories worth talking about this offseason — Phil Jackson’s dismissal, Carmelo Anthony’s bizarre trade limbo, Charles Oakley’s feud with the franchise, the wild Tim Hardaway offer sheet, and so on. And I think in most cases, the top-10 list here reflects the teams that had the most eventful summers (teams like the Timberwolves, Kings, and Pacers wouldn’t show up otherwise).
Still, it’s always going to be a challenge to balance every team equally since our news/rumor output generally relies on reports from other outlets, and there are far more newspapers and websites covering the Knicks than there are covering, say, the Grizzlies. We try to balance it as best we can, particularly with our original content. But our news/rumor stories rely on what’s out there, and when there are three or four or five times as many reporters digging up dirt on the Knicks as there are looking for similar rumors for the Grizzlies, it’s tricky to always give them equal “airtime.”