30Q: How secure is Buddy Hield’s role as a starter?

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty ImagesBuddy Hield just had one of the best three-point shooting seasons in NBA history, based on both accuracy (42.7%) and volume (651 attempts). Because of this, there’s a common assumption that Buddy Hield will remain the starter this coming year. And it’s a fair assumption, Buddy is one of the best young shooters in the league, naturally you’d want him providing spacing for De’Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley III.

But, as I was recently reminded of when listening to James Ham and Doug Christie’s latest podcast, around this time last year the assumption was that Bogdan Bogdanovic would be the starter. At the time the common assumption was that Buddy had found…