CLEVELAND CAVALIERS Did you just ruin it all or save everything? We wouldn't trust Peyton Watson to dribble from half-court to hash-mark, but he is a live body, an actual rotation player to toss out for 30-odd minutes. Can't shoot, can't
Cannot believe I came up with individual questions for all 30 teams at this time of year. What an incredible coincidence. BOSTON CELTICS You doin' anything with those Philly picks, or ... It isn't that we think Paul Pierce may come out of retirement to help with Boston&
The problem for the Bulls, and new GM Bryson Graham, are numbers. Growing numbers, shrinking numbers, low numbers, high numbers, The Who, Small Faces, Kinks, whole scene. The team is fourth on Chicago's depth chart, behind football and baseball and Blackhawks. The internet takes stronger issue with Chicago
We will see a different Jaylen Brown, Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid and V.J. Edgecombe next season. Each won't be able to help it. Nobody's bowing down, but they will peel off. LeBron James will have the ball in Philadelphia for as long as LeBron'
We won't miss Don Nelson too much because his legacy is right in front of us, starting in October and all the way through June. Best players on the floor, always running, taking the best shot for the most points. This isn't Don Nelson's
The bummer here is not the East, but what they keep doing to our East. Sure, the East won the last title, took the 2025 Finals to seven games, won in 2024 and 2021 and 2019. Nice outputs, poorly sustained so far. At least those teams tried, even if it
These days, NBA franchises don't need a Lyle gun to grab hold of Oklahoma City. Not only were the 64-win Thunder nearly matched in the regular season by the 62-win San Antonio Spurs, the Thunder were topped by San Antonio in the Western finals. The Thunder
Not this whole time, from 2018 through 2026, that wasn't happening: Los Angeles always was. The one thing we've always known about LeBron James remains true in any imaginary instance, our hero was going hack at some point, he was always going to be a Laker.
NBA fans shoulda known once LeBron James' reps refused to limit the remaining clubs to two, declined to omit all but the favorites from Ohio and Florida. Golden State and Minnesota saw their fortunes rise and fall but Philadelphia never left the orbit. That he chose the 76ers is
LeBron James turns 42 in five months, no NBA player's been any good at age 42. Until LeBron, Robert Parish was the most effective two-way 41-year old in NBA history, and this is what that looked like: LeBron James could be marvelous at age 42, maybe
There is a crisis among the 30 NBA owners, soon to be flush with the expansion gifts from teams No. 31 and No. 32. The league's local broadcast lineups are in flux, save for a few major outlets, dipping the league's revenue a few percentage points
There is a hope, admittedly underfed, that the NBA's new insistence on obsessing over every spent penny will result in a rising valuation of the league's middle-class. Maybe, with so many franchises scowling at adding multiple maximum contracts to the ledger, the remaining salary cap