With the NBA season right around the corner, now is as good a time as any to take stock of the best talent around the league. So before the regular season officially begins, Sports Illustrated will be ranking the top five players at every position in the NBA. Here, we are focusing on point guards, a loaded position with players who employ very different styles.
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5. De’Aaron Fox
Fox saw the most efficient year of his career last season.
The Jaguars aren’t sure if they’ll have their starting quarterback on Thursday.
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There are plenty of reasons to believe the arrow will not only keep pointing north for the Thunder this season, but take on an aggressive skyward trajectory.
Deion Sanders had a simple message for Colorado after blowing a 29-point lead to Stanford:
His team’s performance was utterly “pathetic.”
The Buffaloes started Friday night by running up a 29-0 lead on the Cardinal, and it looked like Colorado was about to cruise to its fifth win of the season. Instead, the team had an all-time collapse and lost in double OT 46-43.
It was an incredibly disappointing and humiliating night for the program. Deion Sanders made sure to let his players know that after the game.
Giannis Antetokounmpo appears to feel right at home playing alongside new Bucks addition Damian Lillard. After the team’s 108-97 preseason victory over the Lakers on Sunday night, Antetokounmpo gushed with praise for Lillard and specifically the impact he makes the initial tip of the game.
“He’s a threat, like … coming down from half court, he’s already a threat, and I’ve never played with a guy like that,” Antetokounmpo said of Lillard. “I hope I can make the game easy for him, as much as he makes it easier for me and for our team.
Shams Charania is one of the most recognizable names not just in NBA media, but in sports media as a whole. He is a legitimate rival to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski when it comes to breaking the league’s biggest news first, and you don’t just fall into that position, you have to work, work, and then work a little bit more.
Given the state of today’s NBA where trade rumors and deals garner more attention than the actual product on the hardwood, there is very little time off for someone trying to keep up with the endless drama around the league.
C.J. Stroud said something to me, walking through NRG Stadium towards his postgame press conference, that might contradict what you think of him, if you just look at the stats.
The Texans quarterback came into Week 6 with zero interceptions, going his first 186 NFL attempts without one, the longest such streak to start a career in NFL history. He’s a rookie. He’s playing for a Year 1 head coach and working with a first-time offensive coordinator. All of it might make you assume this is some sort of Checkdown Charlie operation.
Viktor Hovland laughs with Tiger Woods after winning the 2022 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. | Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images
Every December, Tiger Woods stages the Hero World Challenge, a limited-field event that features the world’s top players in the Bamahas.
On Monday, Tiger Woods announced the 19-person field that will comprise the 2023 Hero World Challenge, the tournament he hosts.
This limited-field event starts on Nov. 30 at the Albany Golf Course in the Bahamas. The final round will take place on Sunday, Dec. 3.
Each NBA season, the league floods the market with alternate jerseys, hoping to capitalize on fans’ nostalgia for a team’s old look or a successful era of yesteryear. In recent seasons, NBA teams have broken out of regular color schemes and designs with “City Edition“ jerseys from Nike that often feature bold creativity.
However, Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma thinks it’s all a bit too much. Teams have so many alternate jerseys now that players seem to be sporting a different look in nearly every game.
