Basketball Intelligence For 4/14/26, Part One
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
LEAGUEWIDE
Play-In Preview: One Big Question for Each Team
Michael Pina, The Ringer
NBA play-in tournament picks and predictions
Ricky O’Donnell, SBNation
Play-In Tournament Predictions
Zach Buckley, Bleacher Report
2026 NBA playoff predictions
CBS Sports
2026 NBA playoffs: Predicting each series, including the Finals
Zach Kram, ESPN
Grading every NBA team’s regular season
Joseph Casciaro, The Score
NBA Power Rankings
Law Murray, The Athletic
NBA Power Rankings: How all 30 teams finished the regular season, plus final grades
Ben Rohrbach, Yahoo Sports
Rookie-Scale Extensions - Part 1: 2026 Contract Projections
Yossi Gozlan, Third Apron
The skyrocketing cost of the NBA’s star injury epidemic
Ben Golliver
The NBA Has an Urgent Problem: Everyone Is Trying to Lose
Robert O’Connell, Wall Street Journal
Basketball analytics corrected decades of bad intuition. Then it created new blind spots
Joe Boylan, The Athletic
Winners and Losers of the NBA Regular Season’s Jumbled Final Day
Tyler Parker, The Ringer
THE DRAFT
2027 NBA Draft Big Board: Best incoming freshmen and potential breakouts
Christopher Kline, Fansided
2026 Portsmouth Invitational Preview
Ersin Demir, NBA Draft Newsletter
NBA mock draft 10.0
Bryan Kalbrosky, USA Today
TEAM-SPECIFIC
BOS: Joe Mazzulla and some unheralded Celtics reserves find meaning in short-handed win
Jay King, The Athletic
BOS: Why the Celtics Are Never Surprised By Wins, Even When Everyone Else Is
John Karalis, Sports Illustrated
CHA: Inside the Hornets’ transformation from irrelevance to the NBA’s most promising team
Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic
CHA: Inside Hornets’ metamorphosis into the NBA’s buzziest team
Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN
DAL: Mavericks, after another injury-riddled season, shake up medical staff again
Christian Clark, The Athletic
GSW: Steve Kerr and a Warriors season that raises questions about what comes next
Nick Friedell, The Athletic
IND: Haliburton details frustrating battle with shingles
Jamal Collier, ESPN
MIA: Heat back in play-in looking to keep season alive vs. Hornets
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald
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