Basketball Intelligence For 11/30/25
The day's best basketball news and analysis.
FEATURES OF THE DAY
Call My Agent, the Basketball Version
Tania Ganguli, New York Times
The Pacers mislaid identity, whether teams get to mourn, and reinterpreting omens.
Katie Heindl, Basketball Feelings
THE BASKETBALL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
If He’s Anchoring You, That Ship Is Out to Sea (Quarterly Power Rankings)
Aaron and Evan rank all 30 NBA teams in their first quarterly Power Rankings for the 2025–26 NBA season.
TEAM NEWS
ATL: Mo Gueye’s monster impact is now painfully obvious for the Hawks
Ian Kearney, Soaring Down South
ATL: The Hawks are paying just $2 million for the hottest shooter in the NBA
Sam Allred, Soaring Down South
BOS: Boston Celtics big man shines in career night coming off injury
Souichi Terada, Masslive.com
Queta put up one of the best nights of his career even though the Celtics lost to the Wolves 119-115 in Minnesota. He tied a career-high with 19 points paired with a career-high with 18 rebounds. Queta had a double-double in the first half — the first time he’s done that in his career — doing all that coming off an injury.
BOS: Jaylen Brown (41 points) can’t save the day as Celtics open weekend trip with loss to Timberwolves
Gary Washburn, The Boston Globe
BKN: Danny Wolf shines through the chaos in Nets’ ugly 116-99 loss to Bucks
Tyler Carmona, Nets Daily
The Michigan product knocked down two three-pointers in the first quarter to score the first two field goals of his career and didn’t look back, finishing with a career-high 22 points to go along with four assists and four rebounds. He shot 8-of-16 overall and 5-of-9 from deep.
CLE: Cavs bench talent has helped negate some second-apron penalties
Izzy Sy, Fear the Sword
DAL: “I Enjoy the Process”: How Moussa Cissé Has Emerged as a Valuable Two-Way Contributor for the Mavericks
Grant Afseth, Ratings
DAL: Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg becomes youngest NBA player to score 35 in win over Clippers
Christian Clark, The Athletic


