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When Trae Young declined his $48.97 million player option, the reaction was predictable: free agency speculation, landing spots, doubts about whether Washington could keep him.…
The Oklahoma City Thunder spent years building toward a championship window. Now Victor Wembanyama is standing in front of it, and he isn’t going anywhere.…
The most revealing thing about Brooklyn’s draft plans has little to do with which prospect the Nets prefer at No. 6. It is that Sean…
The most interesting part of the Kyrie Irving rumors has less to do with Irving than with the team attached to them: the Houston Rockets.…
The most interesting thing about Atlanta’s draft plans has little to do with who the Hawks take at No. 8. It is what they seem…
The Michael Porter Jr. decision reads like a contract story, but it tells you far more about where Brooklyn’s rebuild is actually headed. According to…
The most telling part of the Lakers’ offseason may be the argument they have stopped having with themselves. For years, Los Angeles has treated center…
While the Finals roll on, the rest of the league is two weeks from reshaping itself. The 2026 NBA Draft tips off June 23 at…
New York’s long Finals break is useful only if Mike Brown turns it into sharper first-game coverage choices against Victor Wembanyama and San Antonio’s guards.
Victor Wembanyama’s Game 7 stepback three showed why Karl-Anthony Towns’ Finals assignment is about more than post defense.
New York’s comeback in Game 1 was really about one repeated late-game decision: letting Jalen Brunson keep getting James Harden on switches.
Landry Shamet was more than a hot hand in Game 1. His two-way minutes gave New York a lineup it can trust deeper into this series.
Cleveland’s collapse in Game 1 was not only about missed shots. It was about an offense that became too easy for New York to read late.
Oklahoma City already adjusted away from Isaiah Hartenstein in Game 1. Now the Thunder have to decide what their best balance looks like in Game 2.
Victor Wembanyama poured in 41 points and grabbed 24 rebounds in San Antonio’s 122-115 double-overtime win on May 18, but the stat that changed Game…
San Antonio lost De’Aaron Fox to right ankle soreness before Game 1, and still walked out of Oklahoma City with a 122-115 double-overtime win because…
Oklahoma City dropped its first game of the 2026 postseason after blowing a late chance and running out of options in double overtime. The box…
The Knicks are set to open the Eastern Conference Finals with O.G. Anunoby expected to return to the lineup after missing the final two games…
The clearest advantage for New York in Game 1 might come from their work on the offensive glass. In the lead-up to Tuesday night’s Eastern…
The Thunder bench owns a plus-7.8 playoff net rating, and Oklahoma City has actually scored more efficiently with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander off the floor than on it through eight postseason games.
Cleveland got 26 points from Donovan Mitchell and 23 apiece from Jarrett Allen and Sam Merrill in a 125-94 Game 7 win, showing what Detroit could not keep loaded onto one star anymore.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander averaged 31.1 points on 55.3 percent shooting in 68 games and led the NBA in total clutch points, turning Oklahoma City’s nightly baseline into an MVP case again.
Sam Merrill scored 23 points, hit 5 of 8 from 3 and set a Cavaliers reserve playoff scoring record in Game 7, giving Cleveland the exact spacing release Detroit had spent the series trying to deny.
Oklahoma City has done everything right so far. The Thunder swept the Lakers to move to 8-0 in the postseason, and that unbeaten run has…
