{"id":247586,"date":"2025-10-29T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:41:13","slug":"predicting-the-5-most-improved-players-of-the-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247586\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the 5 Most Improved Players of the 2025-26 NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Speaking of leaps, Victor Wembanyama has made the leap&#8230;again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He is probably too good to be in a Most Improved Player conversation, but at the same time, he is very hard to keep out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wemby has been outstanding to start the season. He&#8217;s averaging<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/player\/1641705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> 31 points<\/a> per game on the same number of field goal attempts. The significant improvement is coming from the shot selection. Last season, out of his 18.6 attempts, 8.8 of them were threes, hitting 35.2 percent. This season, he&#8217;s attempting just 2.8 threes from deep. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A product of his taking more twos is his skyrocketing free-throw attempts. He has gone from 4.1 attempts last year to 10 this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">One more offensive area in which Wemby has improved is his ball-handling. A 7&#8217;4&#8243; player should not have handles like this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Clearly, he worked on tightening his handling, and it is showing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Let&#8217;s also not forget that Wemby has gotten even better as a shot blocker, going from 3.8 blocks last season to 4.8 this season. He&#8217;s improved his rebounding as well, pulling down 13.8 per contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wemby might be too big for most-improved-player talk and could instead be in the running for the MVP conversation. Either way, everyone should be scared that he keeps getting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking of leaps, Victor Wembanyama has made the leap&#8230;again. He is probably too good to be in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-247586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}