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• NBA Playoffs teams ranked by their 2025 championship chances

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Ranking every 2025 NBA Playoffs team by their chances to win it all The 2025 NBA Playoffs are here with three big favorites and a pool of contenders ready to play the spoiler. The Boston Celtics are trying to become the league’s first back-to-back champion since the 2017-2018 Golden State Warriors. Boston ran over the league on their way t...2025
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• NBA Playoffs predictions for 2025 bracket in every series, including the Finals

Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s predict the 2025 NBA Playoffs The NBA Playoffs used to be boring, at least according to the skeptics. Upsets were few and far between, the best team was determined by who had the best individual player, and the best team almost always won. NBA fans endured four years of the Golden State Warriors vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals....2025
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• NBA Trade Proposal Sends Kevin Durant Back To Thunder In Offseason
One NBA analyst proposed that the Oklahoma City Thunder trade for Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant this offseason. Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report proposed the following trade idea between the Thunder and Suns: Isaiah Hartenstein, Luguentz Dort, Ousmane Dieng and whatever pick haul it’d take to beat everyone else’s offer The Suns are expected to […] The post NBA Trade Proposal...2025
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• NBA Players to Split $35 Million for 2025 Playoff Bonuses

The NBA playoffs tip off this week with the Oklahoma City Thunder coming in as the slight favorite over the Boston Celtics to win the title, with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers the next top picks. The Thunder were the NBA’s youngest team and also had one of its lowest payrolls, but Thunder …...2025
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• 2025 NBA playoffs betting, lines: Breaking down the odds for every playoff series, play-in games

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the favorites to win the NBA title heading into the postseason. Here is the odds breakdown for every series....2025
• NBA Playoffs 2025: Bracket, start dates, TV times, matchups, and scores for first round

Here are the matchups, bracket, and schedule for the 2025 NBA Playoffs. The 2025 NBA Playoff picture is set, with 16 teams competing for the championship after the final four spots are determined by the play-in tournament. The Boston Celtics are dreaming of back-to-back championships, but it won’t be easy: parity is in full swing with a deep and talented field of contenders. The NBA has had a uniq...2025
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• Daryl Morey, Nick Nurse To Return For Sixers Next Season

Following the end of the regular season on Sunday, Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey met with the media. As part of that meeting, Morey said that both he and head coach Nick Nurse would be returning to the Sixers for the 2025-26 season. Morey said it was "obviously a tough season" for Philadelphia. He also stressed that he and Nurse would "assess everything" to avoi...2025
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• Ajay Mitchell Set To Return For Thunder

With everything clinched for playoff seeding, the Oklahoma City Thunder are resting most of their regular rotation players over the final two games. One player not on in the injury report is rookie guard Ajay Mitchell. Mitchell seems poised to make his return to the lineup after a three-month absence. The 6-foot-5 rookie has been out since early January due to a turf toe injury. Mitchell was a sec...2025
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• The NBA’s 11 best rookies this season, ranked

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Let’s rank the best rookies in the NBA this season. The 2024 NBA Draft class will not go down in history for the top-end talent it produced, and that’s okay. Not every draft class can be full of franchise pillars: talent ebbs and flows through the years, with especially strong drafts like 2026 being balanced out by weaker years like this rookie class. J...2025
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• NBA awards picks for 2025 MVP, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and more

Photo by Joshua Gateley/Getty Images Here are our NBA awards picks for the 2025 season. The 2024-2025 NBA season will mostly be remembered for something that happened off the court. Luka Doncic getting traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers will never make sense no matter how many times fans see him in purple and gold. Dallas’ epic collapse in the wake of the deal will ...2025
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• Dillon Brooks Suspended One Game By NBA For 16th Technical

Dillon Brooks has been suspended one game without pay for receiving his 16th technical foul of the 2024-25 season. Under NBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended without pay for one game once he receives his 16th technical foul during a regular season. For every two additional technical fouls received during that regular season, the player or coach will be automatically suspended wi...2025
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• Tyrese Maxey Ruled Out For Remainder Of Season With Finger Injury

The Philadelphia 76ers have ruled out Tyrese Maxey for the remainder of the 24-25 season with a finger tendon injury. Maxey hasn't played since March 3rd to rehab the injury. Maxey finishes the season with averages of 26.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 6.1 assists. Maxey and the Sixers signed a five-year, $204 million deal this past offseason after he was the NBA's Most Improved Player. The Sixers hav...2025
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• Why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s free-throw grifting is actually good for the NBA

Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images The Oklahoma City Thunder MVP candidate is making the NBA more watchable, one free throw at a time. Is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander unstoppable because he shoots a ton of free throws, or does he shoot a ton of free throws because he’s unstoppable? SGA is second in the NBA with a healthy 8.9 free-throw attempts per game and that has become the subject o...2025
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• Kevin Durant Expresses Desire to Own an NFL Team
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"Telling reporters afterward that he's "playing the best basketball of my life," Denver star Nikola Jokic had 35 points, 18 rebounds and eight assists, as his Nuggets defeated the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder 140-127 on Monday night."

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"How about an extra two days of rest for Davis and LeBron James before a matchup with either the wheezing remains of the Sacramento Kings or the Golden State Warriors; all for a chance to play the Oklahoma City Thunder in the one-eight matchup?"

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"A prime example is the 2012 NBA Finals when the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games."

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"Before the Warriors’ Las Vegas Summer League game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday, promising sophomore forward Jonathan Kuminga was asked what it’s like to be on the court with […] The post Jonathan Kuminga reveals plans for next-generation Warriors with James Wiseman appeared first on ClutchPoints."

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"Pending a buyout from the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kemba Walker will be joining the New York Knicks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski."

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"Below is a running diary of the Lakers’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, taking you through game day from start to finish."

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"Florida to name basketball court after Billy Donovan, now coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder"

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"Below is a running diary of the Lakers’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, with comments drawn from Mike Trudell’s @LakersReporter Twitter account."

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"LOOK: Oklahoma City Thunder plane damaged in mid-air, everyone safe"

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"Following his 32-foot overtime dagger that downed the host Oklahoma City Thunder, 121-118, on Saturday, a ton of his peers took to Twitter to express their amazement:Curry finished with 46 points on 14-of-24 shooting."

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"As great as he's been on the court, the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard is also doing some fantastic work off of it."

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"KD surprisingly cannot grip an NBA basketball with one hand, according to Oklahoma City Thunder beat writer Darnell Mayberry: Some people may remember an old photo of Durant apparently palming two basketballs while wearing a Montrose Christian jersey: He explains how he was able to accomplish the feat: So the man can't palm a basketball, folks."

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• NBA Trade Proposal Sends Kevin Durant Back To Thunder In Offseason
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• NBA Playoffs 2025: Bracket, start dates, TV times, matchups, and scores for first round
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• NBA play-in tournament rules, explained for 2025, with updated standings for tight races

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Here’s an explainer on the NBA play-in tournament and the current standings. The NBA play-in tournament has been used to determine the final playoff teams in each conference since being adopted by the league during the bubble. The current iteration of the play-in tournament has a format that’s easy to understand, and puts extra pressure on teams to maxim...2025
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• Ajay Mitchell Set To Return For Thunder
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• Devin Booker On Disappointing 24-25 Season: It's Been A Slow Bleed Out

The Phoenix Suns were officially eliminated from playoff contention with their 125-112 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday. The Suns were the NBA's first $400 million team in terms of salary and luxury tax, but they had an incredibly disappointing season after starting 8-1. Kevin Durant will almost certainly be traded this offseason as the Suns aim to "pivot and reload" around Devin Boo...2025
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• The NBA’s 11 best rookies this season, ranked
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• NBA awards picks for 2025 MVP, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and more
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling

Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images March Madness has impacted our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. March Madness is the first time a big section of NBA fans check in on the top prospects in college basketball. This is a good year to do it: 19 of the 30 first-round picks in our last mock draft made the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament, and a bunch of them are still playing as the fi...2025
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• Chet Holmgren isn’t afraid to say what the Thunder’s goal is this season

Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images The Oklahoma City Thunder have one goal in mind this season. The Oklahoma City Thunder are making the race for the top seed in the Western Conference look a bit like a joke. At the time of this writing OKC has a 12.5-game lead on the “challengers” for the top spot in the West in the Houston Rockets. Given that the Thunder have won 4 in a row, have won 9 of their l...2025
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• Thunder Set Record For Point Differential, Outscored Opponents By 12.9 Points Per Game

The Oklahoma City Thunder set a new NBA record by outscoring teams by 12.9 points per game this season on their way to a 68-14 record. The previous record was held by the Lakers, who outscored opponents by 12.3 points during the 1971-72 season. The Thunder outscored opponents by 1,055 points in total. "We've got a young team and I think it's important for them to understand some of the things we'v...2025
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• NBA play-in tournament rules, explained for 2025, with updated standings for tight races
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• Ajay Mitchell Set To Return For Thunder
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• Devin Booker On Disappointing 24-25 Season: It's Been A Slow Bleed Out
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• The NBA’s 11 best rookies this season, ranked
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• Thunder vs. Suns Predictions: Odds, recent stats, trends and, best bets for April 9
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• Florida is back to being the toast of college basketball with a new wunderkind coach

Scott Wachter-Imagn Images The questions about whether or not Florida could be a college basketball powerhouse without Billy Donovan are no more thanks to Todd Golden. Of the 10-15 programs that had the greatest impact on men’s college basketball over the past couple of decades, perhaps none entered the post-COVID world with a more uncertain long-term future than Florida. In between 2014 ...2025
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Dad Fires Direct Shot at NBA Fans Labeling OKC Thunder Star as a ‘Free-Throw Merchant’
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's father calls out NBA fans for labeling the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard a 'free throw' merchant....2025
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• Jalen Williams Exclusive: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Deserves MVP, Exceeds Player Comparisons
Jalen Williams isn’t holding back on his MVP pick — it’s his Oklahoma City Thunder teammate, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Thunder are clearly the best team in the Western Conference at the moment, going 59-12 (.831 winning percentage) during the first 71 games of the season. They’re more than 13 games ahead of the second-best team […] The post Jalen Williams Exclusiv...2025
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• Don’t Count Out The Los Angeles Clippers Just Yet
Currently seventh in the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Clippers are easy to write off as nothing more than first-round fodder. After all, they don’t even technically have a playoff spot yet — stuck in the Play-In Tournament at the moment — and share a conference with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles […] The post Don’t Count Out The Los Ange...2025
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• Chet Holmgren isn’t afraid to say what the Thunder’s goal is this season
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• Russell Westbrook has finally silenced the critics by playing totally unlike Russell Westbrook

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Nuggets are the first team to not “let Russ be Russ,” and it’s working. When Voltaire published the novel Candide in 1759, he likely didn’t expect it to meet so much resistance — and for so much time. It was banned almost immediately in Paris. Within a few years, the Roman Catholic Church banned it. But the real shocker was the banning of Candide i...2025
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• The NBA ruined the All-Star Game, and Adam Silver has no one to blame but himself

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The 2025 NBA All-Star Game was worse than ever. The NBA All-Star Game devolved into full-on apathy one year ago in Indianapolis, and you could hear the passive-aggressiveness in Adam Silver’s voice as he handed out the MVP trophy. What was otherwise a meaningless exhibition game suddenly became used as the prime example of everything that’s wrong ...2025
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• Ja Morant’s dad Tee ejected for yelling at refs: ‘The fix is in!’

During Saturday night’s home loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant’s father was ejected in the late fourth quarter....2025
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• Russell Westbrook Gives Single Mom the Car He Won at the All-Star Game
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• Durant: Don't need ASG vote to validate me
Reigning league MVP Kevin Durant says a drastic drop-off in fan votes that cost him a starting spot in next month's NBA All-Star Game won't serve as any extra motivation as he tries to lead Oklahoma City Thunder back into the playoff picture....2015
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• San Antonio Spurs Present Immediate Challenge to Golden State Warriors' Throne
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• Kevin Durant Says He Can't Palm a Basketball
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• NBA Players Around the League Lose It After Stephen Curry's Game-Winner
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• Is Kevin Durant Still the NBA's Second-Best Player Behind LeBron James?
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• Kevin Durant Comments on Kobe Bryant's Retirement, Criticism of Lakers Star
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• Kevin Durant Says He Believes He Is the Best Basketball Player in the World
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• 4 winners and 3 losers from Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis trade for Lakers, Mavericks

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Here are our winners and losers from the big Luka Doncic, Anthony trade between the Lakers and Mavs. It’s still hard to believe the Luka Doncic-for-Anthony Davis trade between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks is real. Trades like this only happen in fantasy basketball or NBA 2K dynasties; in the real world, 25-year-olds with five First-Team ...2025
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• Fantasy Basketball: Why Cason Wallace is a priority pickup | The Playlist

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Dan Titus explains why the Oklahoma City Thunder guard heads the list of pickups and streaming keys for Week 12....2025
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• Is Kevin Durant Bound for Golden State? Not If He Remains True to Himself
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• Kevin Durant Expresses Desire to Own an NFL Team
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• Russell Westbrook Records 10th Triple-Double of Season: Highlights and Reaction
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• NBA Players to Split $35 Million for 2025 Playoff Bonuses
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• Thunder Set Record For Point Differential, Outscored Opponents By 12.9 Points Per Game
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• 2025 NBA Playoffs: First-Round Matchups Set As Regular Season Concludes
The Oklahoma City Thunder secured homecourt advantage for the duration of the playoffs with their 68-14 record and NBA-best +12.9 Net Rating. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics were bunched together in second and third in both record and Net Rating. The best matchups of the first round figure to be the Los Angeles Lakers against Minnesota Timberwolves less than a year after Luka Doncic fac...2025
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• 2025 NBA playoffs, betting, odds, lines: Oklahoma City Thunder complete best NBA regular season ATS in 35 years
The Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans 115-100 on Sunday and covered as 12.5-point favorites to bring their regular-season record to 55-23-4 (70.5%) against the spread....2025
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• What can still happen in West on final day of regular season? Well, a whole heck of a lot

The 2024-25 NBA regular season comes to a close Sunday, and while the Eastern Conference playoff field is locked in, several key matchups out West will determine final seeding and postseason fates. The top three seeds in the Western Conference — the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers — are set. However, […] The post What can still happen in West on fina...2025
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• Do Thunder deserve more respect heading into the playoffs?

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• Florida is back to being the toast of college basketball with a new wunderkind coach
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs

Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images The Warriors centers can’t be placeholders if they’re to make another championship run The year is 2000. Planes haven’t fallen from the air, but people sure seem to be tumbling as the Indiana Pacers are facing the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals. In Game 2, the Pacers’ starting Center Dale Davis fouls out. Backup center Sam Perkins fouls out. Thi...2025
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• NBA trade deadline 2025 tracker for every deal as it’s announced

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images We’re keeping track of every 2025 NBA trade deadline deal as they are announced in this post. The NBA seemed set for a quiet trade deadline in 2025 as a new Collective Bargaining Agreement tormented teams with multiple luxury tax aprons and more punitive restrictions for increasing payroll. So much for that. The NBA trade deadline started with fireworks w...2025
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Let’s jump around the league to find the players most likely to get relocated at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. In a now-annual tradition at SB Nation, we are scouring through the internet’s endless supply of NBA trade rumors and asking around our NBA team site network to ask our local experts (alongside some national analysis from yours truly) to see ...2025
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• The NBA screwed Nikola Jokic out of one of the longest shots ever

Nikola Jokic’s shot was way further than 66-feet, and the NBA should correct it It feels like Nikola Jokic is doing things the NBA has never seen before on a nightly basis as he tries to carry the Denver Nuggets up the brutal Western Conference standings. After leading the Nuggets to their fourth straight win on Thursday night against Sacramento Kings, Jokic put his name in the record books for tw...2025
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• Donovan Mitchell Following Win Over Thunder: 'We Don't Win This Game Last Year'

The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 129-122 on Wednesday night, winning their 11th straight game. The Cavs are now 32-4 on the season. "It just speaks to our growth. I told everybody after the game, as a unit, we don't win this game last year ... everybody that came in did something positive to affect the game, whether it was scoring, rebounding, defending, whatever it may be. T...2025
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images These are the only teams that can win the 2025 NBA championship. Defining success in the NBA always comes back to preseason expectations. Some teams are just trying to get better in the regular season and advance a round further in the playoffs, while others are hoping not to fall too far behind their rivals. There’s already a class of teams whose best c...2024
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• Victor Wembanyama is leveling up at a terrifying rate for Spurs

Photos by Michael Gonzales/NBAE via Getty Images Wembanyama’s rapid ascent is impossible to miss. The NBA was packed with exciting games on Thursday night that directly impacted its incredibly tight playoff picture. The Denver Nuggets knocked off the Miami Heat in an NBA Finals rematch, the surging Golden State Warriors picked up another win over the New York Knicks, Devin Booker went off ...2024
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