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Basketball Intelligence For 10/21/25, PART ONE

Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

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Oct 21, 2025
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LEAGUEWIDE

Reasons To Be Excited About The Season, Part 3
Hardwood Paroxysm

Seven Storylines for 2025–26 NBA Season
Liam McKeone, Sports Illustrated

The top 100 players of the 2025-26 NBA season
Ben Golliver/Alvaro Valino/Artur Galocha, Washington Post

Stephen Curry, LeBron James and the ‘surreal’ reality of their NBA longevity
Nick Friedell, The Athletic

5 Eastern Conference storylines to watch
Philip Rossman- Reich, World R Squared

NBA Power Rankings with the 2025-26 NBA season set to tip off
Colin Ward-Henninger, CBS Sports

Previewing every Aussie in the NBA Eastern Conference
Jacob Doole, The Pick And Roll

TEAM-SPECIFIC

BKN: Nets Season Preview, Part II
Steve Lichtenstein

BOS: Brad Stevens opens up on Boston’s offseason reset, new players and finances
Jay King, The Athletic

BOS: Hauser, Minott, and more ready to quietly lift up new Celtics plan
Jack Simone, Hardwood Houdini

CLE: Injury Updates and Projecting the Rotation
Danny Cunningham, The Inside Shot

DAL: Cooper Flagg’s been the best player in every gym so far. Why should NBA be any different?
Mike Curtis, Morning News

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