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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors unsealed two indictments Thursday outlining an illegal betting scheme that has rocked the NBA and named current and former players, including former Clippers player and current Portland head coach Chauncey Billups, in one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States. Prosecutors are accusing the Miami Heat’s …

Opening night isn’t a completely accurate look into how an NBA season is going to progress. Last year, the Hornets beat the Rockets on the road, for instance, and both of the Tuesday matchups were won by teams that would eventually lose to those same opponents in the playoffs — the Lakers to the Timberwolves and the Celtics to the …

The Athletic has live coverage of Rockets vs. Thunder and Warriors vs. Lakers from 2025-26 NBA Season Tip-Off. They won’t outright publicly say it, but if you listen closely enough to the plans of the NBA newcomers — NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video — you can tell that they hope to be the anti-“Inside The NBA.” While the Charles Barkley-led …

Reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder Host Kevin Durant and Houston Rockets in First NBA Tip-Off Game Tomorrow on NBC and Peacock – Pre-Game Coverage Begins Live from OKC with NBA Showtime at 6:30 p.m. ET (Tip-Off at 7:30 p.m. ET) Halftime Coverage to Feature a Portion of Mike Tirico’s Interview with Michael Jordan in …

The NBA’s new media strategy: Build on what the NFL does right  The Washington Post How the NBA has evolved into a ‘media and technology company’  The New York Times Bulls fans won’t be bothered by NBA’s new TV deal  Chicago Sun-Times Silver Linings Playbook  Puck Starting 5, Oct. 16: Showtime Across The Association  NBA Source link

Last May, as Rockets players shuffled across the locker room following a Game 7 loss in the first round to the Warriors, frustrations were palpable. By any metric, the 2024–25 season had been a success. The team won 52 games (up from 41 a year before) and made the postseason for the first time since 2020. The roster was teeming …

I’ve mentioned this in other places over the last two years, but it’s a transitional time for the NBA’s elite. The LeBron James-Steph Curry-Kevin Durant era had already mostly given way to the Nikola Jokić-Giannis Antetokounmpo era, but the former trio hung onto their prime years for so long that we’re already most of the way onto what’s next after …

Hollinger’s 2025-26 predictions: East’s Bottom 7 | West’s Bottom 7| East’s Top 8 Here’s the irony in the Western Conference: On the one hand, it’s absolutely loaded with quality, as eight different teams have a plausible case for making a conference finals run. On the other hand, it still shapes up as a one-horse race. Despite the West’s superiority, the …

Hollinger’s 2025-26 predictions: East’s Bottom 7 | West’s Bottom 7 | West’s Top 8 Welcome to a changed Eastern Conference. This was in the cards before anyone even made a move in the offseason, as three playoff torn Achilles tendons (to Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard, Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton) drastically changed the landscape for the coming season. At …

If it was up to Napheesa Collier, I’m sure she would have much rather spent Tuesday afternoon healthy and preparing with her Minnesota Lynx teammates to play the Phoenix Mercury in Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals. But the Lynx’s season abruptly came to an end with a loss in Game 4 on Sunday afternoon as Collier sat on the …