Are you able to win starring a foul defender?Henry Abbott, True Hoop
Buckets are fame, fame is cash, cash is buckets. Excessive scorers = finest gamers.
Or in order that they have lengthy mentioned. Scoring issues a lot that I’ve had big-time NBA coaches inform me to not fear that a number of the world’s finest gamers—Dame matches a mannequin with MVPs like Allen Iverson and Steve Nash—have been a number of the NBA’s worst defenders. They simply kinda must do what they do. Let ‘em cook dinner.
The NBA’s new tiers of competitionJoseph Casciaro, The Rating
5 rookies (Yang Hansen!) who appear like steals throughout NBA 2K26 Summer time LeagueBobby Kalbrosky, For The Win
My 5 Least Favourite NBA Transactions of the 2025 Offseason Thus FarAbove the Break
Damian Lillard is Headed Again to PortlandDustin Brewer, Hoops Every day
Three Issues I Seen In BasketballJack Zucker, Jack’s Ideas
Thunder’s Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren offers amongst NBA’s finest under-the-radar strikesFred Katz, The Atheltic
ATL: Not even Summer time League skeptics can ignore what Kobe Bufkin is doing proper nowMaxwell Ogden, Hovering Down South
ATL: Hawks continued their residence run offseason with an under-the-radar signingBradley Rowland, Fansided
BOS: Celtics’ Hugo Gonzalez learns an important lesson he’ll take from Summer time LeagueBobby Krivitsky, Hardwood Houdini
CHI: Yuki Kawamura’s summer time league efficiency will drive Bulls to make powerful determinationAustin McGee, Pippen Ain’t Straightforward
CLE: Inside Dan Gilbert’s unprecedented dedication to Koby Altman and the Cavs’ long-term imaginative and prescientChris Fedor, Cleveland.com
CLE: Cleveland Cavaliers Offseason Overview: The RetrofitHardwood Paroxysm
CLE: ‘He might play significant minutes’: Terry Pluto on why Nae’Qwan Tomlin may very well be a Cavs Summer time League success storyTerry Pluto, Cleveland.com
CLE: How the NBA’s second apron is forcing the Cavs to face their mortalityChris Fedor, Cleveland.com
DAL: WATCH: Cooper Flagg at level guard? How Mavericks used No. 1 choose in NBA Summer time LeagueEsfandiar Baraheni, The Athletic
DEN: Cam Johnson? Jonas Valanciunas? David Adelman’s received Nuggets group Michael Malone all the time wished. He higher not blow itSean Keeler, The Dener Submit
From right here on out, DA, it’s enterprise time. Adelman salvaged the spring admirably. He hopped onto a transferring prepare and stored it from careening into the play-in spherical. He survived the Clippers, then pushed one of the best group in basketball — the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder — to seven video games with a beat-up roster.
Quick ahead seven weeks, and DA’s received extra instruments, sharper instruments, in his shed to play with. And fewer excuses. The Nuggets’ VP tag group of Jon Wallace and Ben Tenzer, on paper, knocked their first strive at Jokic Period 2.0 out of the park, flipping two dangerous contracts (MPJ and Dario Saric) into 4 good gamers.
GSW: Warriors draft choose Will Richard appears to be like like a steal after NBA Summer time LeagueMonte Poole, NBC Sports activities Bay Space
MIA: Spoelstra and employees finding out what went improper for Warmth, as East evolves: ‘Everyone is motivated’Eric Spoelstra, Miami Herald