Basketball Intelligence For 4/10/26
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
LEAGUEWIDE
Biggest NBA games to watch today for playoffs, play-in (and why)
Mark Giannotto, USA Today
NBA lottery reform: How to fix tanking? Don’t give the bottom three teams the best odds
Kevin O’Connor, Yahoo Sports
Punish the worst teams? Adam Silver reportedly has ‘enthusiastic’ response to new NBA Draft Lottery proposal
Sam Quinn, CBS Sports
NBA’s most valuable players in 15 categories: Scoring, shooting, more
Dean Oliver, ESPN
NBA Post-All-Star Breakout Team
John Hollinger, The Athletic
Nikola Jokić’s defense, Jayson Tatum’s glass work and more NBA trends
Fred Katz, The Athletic
NBA’s looming lottery changes will likely have incidental repercussions
Brian Lewis, NY Post
Recapping Thursday’s Games
Dustin Brewer, HOOPS
TEAM-SPECIFIC
BKN: A Nets Too-Good-To-Fail Story
Steve Lichtenstein
BOS: How Jaylen Brown turbocharged the Boston Celtics back to title contention
Ramona Shelburne, ESPN
BOS: Celtics lose in thriller to Knicks as Jayson Tatum makes healthy return to Madison Square Garden
Adam Himmelsbach, Boston Globe
CLE: How Craig Porter Jr. Can Block Anyone’s Shot
Danny Cunningham, The Inside Shot
CLE: Why NBA playoff games slow to a crawl — and why this version of the Cavs welcomes the challenge
Chris Fedor/Jimmy Watkins, cleveland.com
DAL: Marvin Bagley III is the exact type of center the Mavericks have been waiting for
Will Miller, The Smoking Cuban
DEN: Nuggets are making the NBA title race significantly more interesting
Eamon Cassels, Fansided
GSW: Warriors lose home finale to Lakers
Joseph Dycus, Mercury News
LAL: Game Observations: Game 80 vs Warriors
Iztok Franko, digginbasketball
LAL: Lakers beat Warriors to halt 3-game skid
Benjamin Royer, OC Register
LAL: LeBron James powers shorthanded Lakers to important win over Warriors
Thuc Nhi Nguyen, LA Times
MEM: Grizzlies: 4 encouraging developments from the end of the season
Parker Fleming, Subtsakalidis
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