The Thunder once again led the NBA in Net Rating with the Celtics not far behind, while the Spurs, Pistons and Hornets made significant year-over-year jumps. Read more »

The Thunder finished the 24-25 season with the best Net Rating in the NBA, ahead of the Cavaliers who jumped from 13th a season ago. Read more »

The Wolves made a major trade right before camp and then started the season slow, but the new pieces have now been incorporated and they again look like the team that made the Western Conference Finals. Read more »

Rob Dillingham represents Minnesota's best and last chance to acquire high-level talent that will complement their current roster. Trading for him wasn't merely a savvy basketball move, it was a clever piece of front office statecraft. Read more »

On Cody Williams, Isaiah Collier, Kyle Filipowski, Ron Holland, Dalton Knecht, Stephon Castle, Rob Dillingham, AJ Johnson and Kel'el Ware. Read more »

In the 2024 NBA, regime change has arrived, and old templates won't tell us what's coming. Luka and Ant-Man aren't following old bibles about how to win, closely mimicking anyone who came before them, or sticking to their reputational patterns. Read more »

Previewing Wolves/Mavericks and Celtics/Pacers. Read more »

This has been an instant classic series without an instant classic game. It has seemingly been over twice and now we get to watch two superduperstars on supremely well-constructed teams in a Game 7. Read more »

Minnesota's defensive effort in Game 2 was a transformative sight. In what appeared to be an effort to become one with their team name, they swarmed, smashed, hounded, snarled, took, and destroyed for 24 straight minutes to start the game. Not an inch of the court was safe. Read more »

The Celtics finished in the top spot in Net Rating for the second straight season, while the Thunder jumped up from 28th to 14th to second. Read more »

Some names are bigger than others, but from Jaylen Brown and Luka Doncic to Donte DiVincenzo and Chet Holmgren, here are the 10 biggest playoff X-factors. Read more »

Despite the injury to Karl-Anthony Towns and their looming salary cap concerns, Anthony Edwards has crystalized this season that the Wolves have the most valuable and rare thing in the NBA. Read more »

Ricky Rubio seemed, as the passage of time compresses the finer details, like he was always peaking brilliantly or in the midst of a lull from which he might never emerge, but he was also a consistent presence. Read more »

We've ranked every team's wing corps from 1 to 30 based on the top three wings' production, upside and versatility. Read more »

The Celtics finished first in Net Rating ahead of the Cavaliers, who jumped up from 13th last season and 28th as recently as 2021. Read more »

Klay Thompson embodies both the zombie-like malaise of the Warriors, and that of the league in general as we end another long season in its most laborious, most unstable era ever. On the opposite end is probably the most-disliked person in the modern NBA, who ended his regular season with maximum indignity. Read more »

Walker Kessler was thrown into the Rudy Gobert trade and has emerged as a shot-blocking force for the Jazz. Meanwhile, Gobert has become the avatar for Minnesota's disappointing season. Read more »