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With the bulk of the 2026 NBA offseason’s player movement now concluded, and with the calendar now flipped to August, it’s time to start looking ahead to what’s coming next in the NBA, both this season and afterward

We have a little over a month until the NBA wakes up from its late-summer siesta. When players start reporting to team facilities for preseason activity, we’ll see some big names in unfamiliar (and even unexpected) places. LeBron James and Jaylen Brown in Philadelphia. Giannis Antetokounmpo in Miami. LaMelo Ball in Minnesota. Maybe Kawhi Leonard…

Russell Westbrook, a player who scored, rebounded and passed like few others, helped define an era of the NBA

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In March, I ranked the 15 worst contracts in the NBA. Some of those rankings aged well. Joel Embiid was overpaid then and he’s overpaid now. Some of them do not. The ranking committee offers its sincere apologies to NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns, who just had one of the greatest statistical playoff runs in league…

A month into the NBA’s 2026 free agency period, we’ve seen scores of signings and trades, with multiple potential needle-movers changing ZIP codes and uniforms — including, most recently and notably, the leading scorer in NBA history trading in sunny Los Angeles for anothercity where I’m told it’s always sunny

The Boston Celtics could still improve their roster before the 2026-27 NBA season arrives

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One of the biggest trades of the NBA offseason — the Toronto Raptors re-acquiring Kawhi Leonard — remains on pause due to the NBA’s ongoing investigation into allegations the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the salary cap through a no-show sponsorship deal between Leonard and the since-shuttered carbon credits company Aspiration. 

The first three weeks of the 2026 NBA offseason — from June’s NBA Draft through the initial rush of the 2026 free agency period — have seen scores of signings and trades, with a number of potential needle-movers changing ZIP codes and uniforms. That doesn’t mean, though, that the market’s bone-dry; there’s still a number…