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Bronny James said he hasn't spoken much to his father, LeBron, about the decision to leave the Lakers this summer, but said he's excited to face him on Christmas.
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Jayson Tatum says he's thankful for his time with Jaylen Brown and the success they shared but feels comfortable leading the new-look Celtics this season.
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The 76ers say they are comfortable with making sacrifices for the benefit of the team after adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown in the offseason.
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Anthony Edwards says he's happy with the moves Minnesota made over the summer and is excited to continue to develop chemistry with LaMelo Ball.
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Damian Lillard said he's not worried about balancing a backcourt that includes himself, Ja Morant, Jrue Holiday and Scoot Henderson, saying it "will work itself out."
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LeBron James told ESPN that he envisioned joining the Knicks as a free agent this summer but nixed the idea after New York won the NBA title.
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Former NBA champion JR Smith was arrested Monday in Texas on a charge of assault causing "bodily injury family violence."
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From Kawhi Leonard's return to Toronto to LeBron James' fit in Philadelphia, we're answering the biggest preseason questions for all 30 teams.
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The storylines surrounding eight stars who recently changed teams will help define the journey to spring.
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We're grading the biggest free agent signings and extensions, including Steph's new two-year deal.
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The 2026-27 NBA season is approaching with media days ending Monday. Here are the top scenes from around the league.
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About NBA
How the league is built
The NBA runs thirty franchises in two conferences, each divided into three divisions, with a long regular season followed by a playoff bracket seeded within each conference. Because a basketball roster is small and five players are on court at a time, a single player affects outcomes far more than in any other major league, which is why individual movement dominates coverage and why one injury can change a title race. Entry is through an annual draft whose early order is decided partly by lottery rather than purely by record, a design intended to reduce the incentive to lose deliberately.
A soft cap, and why that matters
The NBA's salary cap is soft: teams may exceed it under defined exceptions, most importantly to re-sign their own players, but pay an escalating tax for doing so. That single design choice explains a great deal of the league's news. It gives incumbent teams an advantage in retaining stars, makes assembling several highly paid players punishingly expensive, and turns roster building into tax management as much as talent evaluation. Contract lengths and options are collectively bargained, which is why player movement clusters around the same dates each year.
Player movement as a genre
More than in most sports, NBA coverage treats where players will go as a continuous story rather than an off-season one. Trade requests, extension eligibility, expiring contracts and draft pick swaps are discussed year-round, and future picks function as a currency in their own right. Rebuilding teams accumulate them; contending teams spend them. This is also the sport where a player's public statements can move a market on their own, so a great deal of what is reported is negotiation conducted in the open.
Reading the regular season
The regular season runs to more than eighty games, played on a demanding travel schedule, and teams manage player workload across it deliberately by resting healthy players. That practice sits awkwardly with broadcasters and ticket holders and has produced rules requiring availability for certain fixtures. The consequence for a reader is that regular season results carry less information than the raw standings suggest, since a given game may have been contested by neither side at full strength, and postseason performance regularly diverges from it.