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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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NBA MVP has become perhaps the most debated award in sports. It’s perfect fodder for the talking heads on afternoon TV, and the arguments online will get even more nuanced in some corners and a lot stupider in others. The last decade has given us some truly great MVP races, including Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s narrow victory over Nikola Jokic last year. …
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Toraya Reid, who was the sister of Minnesota Timberwolves big man Naz Reid, died at the age of 28 after she was shot in New Jersey. Bruce Shipkowski of the Associated Press reported Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said Monday that police went to an apartment complex on Saturday morning after receiving reports of shots fired. They found Reid unresponsive …
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