Basketball Intelligence For 2/12/26
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
FEATURE OF THE DAY
Keeping Keon Ellis is an obvious offseason goal for the Cavaliers
Caleb Crowley, King James Gospel
LEAGUEWIDE
Report Card Grades for Each NBA Team’s Rookie Class
Greg Swartz, Bleacher Report
Examining the Ivica Zubac Trade Package
Yossi Gozlan, Third Apron
why the Pacers paid a big price for him, why the Clippers had to accept their offer, and how the trade impacts the NBA’s tanking crisis
Does the NBA need ‘new system’ to disincentivize tanking?
Chris Mannix, Sports Illustrated
THE DRAFT
2026 NBA draft big board rankings: Top 100 prospects
Jeremy Woo, ESPN
NBA mock draft 2026
Ricky O’Donnell, SBNation
Prospect Spotlight: Darius Acuff Jr.
Stephen Gillaspie, No Ceilings
Evaluating Florida’s Thomas Haugh.
Derek Parker, Sports Illustrated
Note: Some iterations of this story had an incorrect headline. We don’t know if or how SI will be fixing that - the link that we have provided might ultimately be to the different story that was teased. We’re proceeding as if it will continue to the Haugh scout.
PRO HOOPS HISTORY
Ex-Sonics coach George Karl says Prime Video series validates ABA
Mike Gastineau, Seattle Times
TEAM-SPECIFIC
BKN: Common Ground For Nets Stretch Run
Steve Lichtenstein
BOS: Celtics cruise into NBA All-Star break with beatdown of Bulls
Zack Cox, Boston Herald
BOS: It Took One Practice For Nikola Vucevic To Get Comfortable And Bury His Former Team
John Karalis, Sports Illustrated
CHA: Hornets leg it out in a very important victory for their postseason hopes
Doug Branson, Every Hornets Boxscore
CHA: Kon artistry: Knueppel has become a rookie star for Charlotte Hornets
Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer
CLE: Keeping Keon Ellis is an obvious offseason goal for the Cavaliers
Caleb Crowley, King James Gospel
CLE: Game Night Observations: Sam Merrill’s Heater, Home Debuts and a Good Reset
Danny Cunningham, The Inside Shot
The Cavs go into the NBA All-Star break as the league's hottest team.
CLE: Can the Cavs keep Jarrett Allen’s dominance going once Evan Mobley returns?
Jimmy Watkins, cleveland.com
DAL: How Cooper Flagg reset Mavs after Davis-Doncic trade
Tim MacMahon, ESPN
DET: Close-knit Pistons soar into the All-Star break with East’s best record
Hunter Patterson, The Athletic
DET: Are the Pistons Built for the Playoffs?
Nevin Brown, Above The Break
The Pistons might not deserve our trust completely, but they deserve more than they’re getting. There are more reasons to believe in them than not, and the real question is, why do you trust anyone else more? Until you can answer that, you should probably ride with the best team in the Conference.
