Basketball Intelligence For 5/28/26
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS
How the Thunder Are Walling Off Wemby
Michael Pina, The Ringer
Thunder Open 3s and Wemby’s Limited Paint Attempts in Game 5
Paul Garcia, The Spot Up Shot
OKC’s depth has been the difference
Mike Shearer, Basketball Poetry
San Antonio needs an aggressive Victor Wembanyama to force a Game 7 while Oklahoma City looks to lean on experience.
Jeff Zillgitt, NBA.com
What the Spurs must do to keep their season alive
Jeff McDonald, Express-News
How Thunder flipped series vs. Spurs in Game 5
Ben Golliver, ESPN
Isaiah Hartenstein and Cason Wallace led the Thunder to a pivotal Game 5 win
Jackson Frank, The Hardood Herald
Game 6 preview
Kurt Helin, NBC Sports
Thunder eye NBA Finals trip with some sage against ‘The Machine’
Justin Martinez, The Oklahoman
Thomas Sorber lost his rookie season. The Thunder still showed him how to win
Dan Woike, The Athletic
LEAGUEWIDE
How NBA championship rosters are built: Spurs are an outlier
Zach Kram, ESPN
Ranking the Top 70 Potential 2026 NBA Free Agents
Eric Pincus, Bleacher Report
Is OKC Thunder’s Controversial Style of Play a Growing Problem for the NBA?
Andy Bailey, Bleacher Report
The growing value of non-guaranteed money
Jonas Plaut, The Cap Crunch
TEAM-SPECIFIC
DAL: How the Mavs Blew It With Jalen Brunson — From Someone Who Was There
Jeremias Engelmann, 5x5
DET: Elevating the Pistons to True Title Contenders - 2026 Offseason Preview
Yossi Gozlan, Third Apron
MIN: DiVincenzo’s long road back underscores his importance to Timberwolves
Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic
NOP: Jamahl Mosley, Pelicans must both evolve to make partnership work
William Guillory, The Athletic
NYK: Leon Rose built the Knicks into an NBA Finals team. So why should he talk about it?
Ian O’Connor, The Athletic
NYK: Knicks’ across-the-board ‘sacrifice’ at heart of everything clicking during NBA Finals run
Jared Schwartz, NY Post
NYK: Anunoby won a title while hurt. Now, he’s balling and close to another
James Edwards III, The Athletic
NYK: Stars of the Series: the best of the best vs Cleveland
Jonathan Macri, Knicks Film School
ORL: 2026 Magic Player Evaluations: Jevon Carter proves the point again
Philip Rossman-Reich, World R Squared
UTA: The Jazz have one job on draft night: Draft AJ Dybantsa or Darryn Peterson
Tony Jones, The Athletic
THE DRAFT
Mock Draft 2026: NEW Update After Key Deadline Passes
Sean Deveney, heavy.com
Mock 2.0
Danny Chau, The Ringer
Yaxel Lendeborg: Basketball Age and the Case for an Outlier
Logan Eby, Babcock Hoops
Best Game Series: Allen Graves Video Breakdown
Bryce Simon, Game Theory
The pros and cons of the new NBA draft lottery reform
ESPN
NBA’s anti-tanking draft reform might be great for Lakers but is bad for basketball
Mirjam Swanson, LA Times
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