Fast forward to this season, and now he’s on top of it.

As a number of teams tip off their 28th game of the NBA season on Thursday night, we have officially hit the one-third mark of this campaign, so what better time — after the league crowned its Cup champion on Tuesday — to take stock of an MVP race that is as stacked with top-end talent as it has ever been.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis and Trae Young lead the list of NBA players who could be traded before the league's trade deadline this season.

Victor Wembanyama continues to move comfortably between respect and confidence, and his latest comments underscored that balance. Asked by ESPN to weigh in on the NBA’s best, the San Antonio Spurs star laid out his view of the league’s hierarchy before turning the spotlight inward,

Tom Haberstroh & Dan Devine break down the NBA’s Christmas Day slate and preview Cooper Flagg’s historic holiday start at just 19 years, 4 days old.

Here's our rankings of the trade chances of every standard-contract player on the Suns:

Our new tool allows you to check trade rumor mentions for players over the previous seven days, 14 days, all the way out to over the previous month, and it automatically ranks players by frequency, making it extremely useful in figuring out which NBA players might be getting traded next.

Whitmore has been diagnosed with the same condition that sidelined Victor Wembanyama and Damian Lillard last season.