HoopsHype: Atlanta Hawks

2004 | 6-9 | N/A | 202 LBS

Team: Kansas

Best aggregate mock draft rank: 13 / Worst rank: NR

2023-24 stats:

In 2023-24, Furphy averaged 9.0 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 0.3 blocks, and 0.9 steals per game. He shot 46.6 percent from the field, 35.2 percent from three, and 76.5 percent from the foul line.

Gerald Bourguet: Bradley Beal on processing the sweep: “You see I’m trying to make light of the situation, but it’s a shitty feeling….That series just sucked, and obviously the last game for me was horrible. So it’s hard to process.”
Source: Twitter @GeraldBourguet

Harrison Wind: Anthony Davis on the Lakers’ confidence level entering Game 5: “Very confident. Very confident in our group. Very confident in our schemes. Confident in our game plan and our adjustments.”
Source: Twitter @HarrisonWind

Rich Paul on LeBron James: he’s had an unbelievable career and I think we do see him next year. Now, how many more after that? I do not know. But I think he’s got maybe two or three years left in the tank, maybe.”
Source: Twitter @SiriusXMNBA

Michael Jordan prevails over LeBron James as the NBA’s greatest player of all time in our HoopsHype poll, but it’s not a landslide win. In our poll, the split is 49-37 in favor of Jordan over James. Conversely, The Athletic’s poll had 45.9 percent for Jordan and 42.1 percent for James. Lakers legend Kobe Bryant also received a decent share of the vote with nine percent. Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony each received one vote.
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As expected, the older the player was, the more likely he was to vote for Jordan as the greatest NBA player of all time. Jordan dominated the vote amongst players over 30 years old, born before 1995, and in the 25-29 range born in the second half of the 1990s. King James was crowned the greatest NBA player among players born in the 2000s, one of the few blocks of voters where he triumphed.
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HoopsHype polled a mix of eight players who either played with James previously or currently and found they were split between James and Jordan, surprisingly.
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The Pat McAfee Show: “I don’t think LeBron James is gonna retire & I do think he’s gonna play at least one more season.. I really don’t see him leaving the Lakers.. I think he will opt out of his contract though because I think Bronny is entering the draft” THANK YOU @Brian Windhorst #PMSLive
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The Athletic recently released their GOAT poll among active NBA players, which caused much grief in HoopsHype’s headquarters since we had been working on a similar project during the season. Our voter size is similar, with 85 player interviews and another 15 players tallied with their picks via social media or a public interview on the record. However, the results are slightly different, with Michael Jordan getting a bigger gap over LeBron James compared to The Athletic’s poll.

Tom Orsborn: The Spurs announced they will play two regular-season games in Paris next season against Indiana on Jan. 23 and Jan. 25, 2025. It will mark the first time the NBA will play two regular-season games in the French capital in the same season.
Source: Twitter @tom_orsborn