Every week, the Hoops Rumors writing team creates original content to complement our news feed. Here are our original segments and features from the past seven days:
- With the February 8 trade deadline fast approaching, we began to take a closer look this week at some specific trade candidates, identifying several players in the Southeast and Southwest divisions who could be on the move in the coming weeks.
- Some trade candidates will have a little more leverage than others this season. We examined five players who are viewed as possible trade chips, but would have to give their consent to be dealt.
- We continued our team-by-team series previewing the 2018 free agent market this week, assessing the stocks of free-agents-to-be for the Knicks and the Raptors.
- Eight first-round picks for the 2018 draft have already been traded, but most have protections on them. With the help of our 2017/18 Reverse Standings, we checked in on where things stand for those traded first-rounders, including the Lakers pick that will land in either Philadelphia or Boston.
- Chris Crouse’s weekly fantasy basketball feature zeroed in on finding under-the-radar values on lottery-bound teams.
- In his Sunday mailbag, Arthur Hill answered readers’ questions on LeBron James, Andre Drummond, and the Bucks.
- Our Community Shootaround discussions this week focused on the following questions:
- What moves do the Cavaliers need to make?
- Should the Heat exploring moving Hassan Whiteside?
- Who was the NBA’s first-half MVP?
- Which 10 players deserved to be named All-Star starters?