With Game 1s in the books, we make the case for -- and against -- each of the playoff teams to win the 2025 NBA title.

Jared McCain was tracking toward runaway Rookie of the Year honors before a left knee injury prematurely ended his season. He ...

This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, ...

The NBA is taking a break on Thanksgiving, one of the few days on which the league goes dark. Earlier this season, the NBA also didn’t hold a single game on Nov. 5, election day, encouraging ...

Here are first-round NBA playoff predictions from USA TODAY Sports NBA staff writers and editors: Noteworthy: The Cavaliers ...

The Thunder and Celtics both earned wins as the NBA playoffs continued on Sunday. Here is our analysis of the action.

Athlon Sports taps veteran writer Mark Medina to gaze into his crystal ball to envision the upcoming postseason.

The Eastern Conference’s second-seeded Boston Celtics (61-21) will face the seventh-seeded Orlando Magic (41-41) in the first ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder should have zero regrets about their year, as they put together one of the best regular seasons in ...

One of those defeats came in the antepenultimate game of the regular season, when the Celtics sat Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Kristaps ... Houston 517-509, and the Rockets ...