Basketball Intelligence For 1/16/25

Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

LEAGUEWIDE

NBA trade deadline: 10 teams to monitor in the final 20 days
Tim Bontemps/Brian Windhorst, ESPN

The 10 likeliest NBA players to get traded at the deadline
Sam Quinn, CBS Sports

Q&A with Oren Weisfeld, author of “The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse”
Caitlin Cooper, Basketball She Wrote

Midseason grades for each East team
Jack Maloney/Brad Botkin/Robby Kalland, CBS Sports

Midseason grades for each West team
James Herbert/Sam Quinn/Jasmyn Wimbish, CBS Sports

NBA Free Throw Rate Plummets In January As Scoring Totals Drop Across League
Tom Haberstroh, Yahoo Sports

Thursday night’s games
Dustin Brewer, HOOPS

Dillon Brooks has confidence, Dyson Daniels needs confidence and more NBA trends
Fred Katz, The Athletic

TEAM-SPECIFIC

BOS: Anfernee Simons turned in his best game as a Celtic, and the Heat paid the price
Adam Himmelsbach, Boston Globe

BOS: Anfernee Simons is ‘special’ as Celtics come back to beat Heat
Jay King, The Athletic

CHA: Hornets dominate the Lakers
Evan Hale, Every Hornets Boxscore

CHA: LaMelo Ball becoming ‘emotional leader’ for Charlotte Hornets
Thuc Nhi Nguyen, LA Times

CLE: Another Darius Garland injury deepens a troubling pattern for the Cavs
Jimmy Watkins/Chris Fedor, cleveland.com

CLE: Inside the Cavs’ troubling playoff plan that the schedule won’t allow
Chris Fedor, cleveland.com

DAL: I love Cooper Flagg
David Thorpe, True Hoop

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