Basketball Intelligence For 5/9/25
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
LEAGUEWIDE
Anthony Edwards' injury scare shows fragile nature of NBA playoffs — and how it could all come down to one star
Vincent Goodwill, Yahoo Sports
BI: Virtually every season proves this truism: the healthiest of the elite teams wins it all. We’ve known that forever. What we don’t know anywhere near for certain in advance is which team that will be. So, no definitive pre-playoff betting edge.
Playoff Madness: What In The Name Of Dikembe Mutombo Is Going On?
Matt Moore, Hardwood Paroxysm
Eastern Conference questions
Mike Shearer, Basketball Poetry
Boston's bricks, Indiana's unsung hero, Cleveland's Alfred problem, and more
NBA Trends, Part I: The New Era of Speed, Athleticism, and Aggressiveness
Iztok Franko, digginbasketball
Examining NBA guards from the pre-draft process to their current teams to better determine what kinds of prospects succeed as role players in the league
Nathan Grubel, No Ceilings
THE DRAFT
2025 NBA Draft Combine: Updated prospect rankings and five players with most to prove in Chicago
Kyle Boone, CBS Sports
Players to Watch at the G League Elite Camp
Rafael Barlowe, NBA Big Board
Top 5 Shooting Guards Entering the 2025 NBA Draft
Liam Reynolds, College Sports Network
Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey are projected lottery picks
Gina Mizell, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ace Bailey: NBA draft scouting report and intel
Cyro Asseo de Choch, Hoops Hype
TEAM-SPECIFIC
BOS: 10 takeaways from another Celtics’ fourth quarter collapse
Azad Rosay, Celtics Blog
BOS: The Celtics should run offense
David Thorpe, True Hoop
BOS: Joe Mazzulla says Celtics can’t have too much pride to understand why they’re in 0-2 hole
Jay King, The Athletic
CHI: Bulls have put ball in Patrick Williams' court
Joe Cowley, SunTimes
After five seasons of bending over backward to help Williams develop his game, the Bulls have told him it’s time to sink or swim
CLE: Season on the brink, Cavs must lean on defense to disrupt Pacers
Ethan Sands, cleveland.com
CLE: Cavs provide injury updates on Darius Garland, De’Andre Hunter and Evan Mobley ahead of Game 3
Chris Fedor, cleveland.com
CLE: Things don't look great right now, but it isn't impossible.
Danny Cunningham, The Inside Shot
DEN: For the Nuggets, Friday’s Game 3 starts with matching the Thunder’s physicality
Tony Jones, The Athletic
DEN: How the Nuggets are working to solve the ‘Jokic Rules’
Jake Shapiro, Denver Sports
GSW: Warriors experiment with rotation in Game 2 blowout and maybe find some answers
Anthony Slater, The Athletic
GSW: Kuminga, TJD could force Kerr's hand after athleticism in Game 2 loss
Dalton Johnson, NBC Sports
GSW: Warriors’ Pat Spencer shouldn’t be in this NBA spotlight. He never let that stop him
Marcus Thompson II/Shakeia Taylor, The Athletic
IND: The Pacers wear you down
David Thorpe, True Hoop
IND: Aaron Nesmith, once compared to a paperclip and a piece of string, is now Pacers X factor
Stephen Noh, Sporting News
IND: I coached Tyrese Haliburton in college. Here’s why he’s a special leader
Steve Prohm, The Athletic
IND: It Took Me 10 Years to Write This
Myles Turner, The Players’ Tribune
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