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The 2026 NBA postseason is here, and the bracket has somewhere to be
73 wedgies and counting — and somehow that's still not the strangest thing happening in this postseason.
Silver says the league didn’t “pause” the Kawhi trade — the teams did
10 months later, the Kawhi Leonard investigation still hasn’t been boxed up, and Adam Silver says it needs to be wrapped before next season.
Former Wildcats, now Summer League enemies
23 points was enough to make Brayden Burries the game’s top scorer — and it still wasn’t enough to beat his old Arizona teammate.
Arthur Kaluma’s 34-point pop gave the Lakers a clean Summer League win
34 points and 29 feet: Arthur Kaluma just turned Summer League into a personal highlight reel.
Knicks, Timberwolves Win Game 1s as Second Round Opens Monday
137-98 was the kind of Game 1 beatdown that turns a "competitive series" into an immediate search for a pulse.
Steph, Jaylen Brown, and the LeBron pitch parade
41-year-old LeBron James is the biggest free-agent question heading into the 2026-27 NBA season.
Khris Middleton’s return turned into a six-team cap puzzle
20% of the NBA showed up in one six-team trade, and the whole thing still has the energy of a paperwork prank.
Lakers/Rockets
78 points was all the Rockets could manage in a Game 6 closeout, and that’s the kind of number that leaves a scar.
Lynx vs. Valkyries opens with history, and Minnesota has already been rude about it
8 straight playoff breadcrumbs are not the story here; 4-0 is: Minnesota swept Golden State in the regular season and now gets the first-expansion-team-to-
Wizards bring Patrick Ewing back to the bench
75-109: Patrick Ewing's Georgetown record, and now he's headed back to the Wizards bench.
The first-round offense mostly got mugged
115.7 to 111.0: the NBA’s playoff offense just took a 4.7-point nosedive from the regular season.
GSV vs. New York Liberty comes with an early start and a broadcast scavenger hunt
4:00 p.m. PT is doing a lot of work here, because that’s the start time for GSV vs New York Liberty and the TV hunt sounds like a full-time job.
The Play-In is next, with six games on Amazon Prime Video
32-50 was enough to send Doc Rivers packing, and the NBA playoff field is already set.
LeBron leaves the Lakers, and free agency opens with a thud
$1 million in cash changed hands in the Ja Morant trade. The week still found room for LeBron James walking out the door.
The regular season wrapped with seeding shrapnel everywhere
65-game eligibility, Play-In chaos, and seeding carnage are the headline numbers in a day when the NBA’s postseason picture finally stopped pretending to b
The intel firehose is pointed straight at free-agency's starting gun
The NBA's personnel grapevine is running hot. The latest late-night notes roundup lands right as free agency's opening bell draws near — and the league's i
Marina Mabrey just tied the WNBA single-game scoring record with 53 points, and yes, you read that right
53 points is the loudest number in the pack. It belongs to Marina Mabrey, and it isn't close.
Giannis trade saga finally snaps shut
After 13 consecutive months of speculation about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks future, the saga is really South Beach-bound. The trade discussion is still
The draft finally gets its theater back
3 players are drawing the top of the NBA draft conversation, while 13 months of speculation about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks future supposedly ended in
The Hornets are open to trading LaMelo Ball — and the suitors are already getting aggressive.
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Utah grabs Darryn Peterson at No. 2 while trying to close the Thunder gap
42 games behind Oklahoma City last season, Utah still walked into the draft and took Darryn Peterson at No. 2.
The WNBA’s first month: the obvious and the weird are finally separating
99-66: that’s the kind of opening-night WNBA beatdown that ages into a weird little season bookmark.
Brunson didn't just win the Finals — he consumed them
Jalen Brunson put up 40.5 PPG in the Finals, shooting 50% from three and 50% from the field. The headline stat is the one that sounds fabricated until you
The trade-and-free-agency furnace is already lit
30 NBA teams are already in the negotiation zone, with only a week left before the NBA Draft.
The Knicks didn’t just win Game 3 — they survived a full-blown collapse and flipped the Finals
29 points down was the old Finals wall; now the Knicks have made history look flimsy.
The Knicks turned a burial into a live series
29 points wasn't enough. The Spurs blew a 29-point lead and lost 107-106 — and somehow, the Finals are still breathing.
Knicks close the book on 53 years with a Brunson flamethrower
53 years later, the Knicks are champs, and Jalen Brunson just dropped 45 to end it.
The Finals goes back to MSG, and the building is already acting feral
29-point rally, 13 straight postseason wins, and Game 4 back at Madison Square Garden: the Knicks have turned this Finals into a full-blown noise experimen
Time Is the Knicks' Sixth Man in the NBA Finals
The New York Knicks are two wins from their first championship since 1973 — and their best player hasn't fully woken up yet.
Knicks 105, Spurs 104: the comeback was real, the finish was a nightmare
Victor Wembanyama called himself "very blurry" after Game 2, and the Spurs matched the mood. San Antonio clawed out of a 14-point fourth-quarter hole, went