Basketball Intelligence For 6/29/25
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
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A new coveted archetype
Parker Fleming, Subtsakalidis
Scouting the Top International Prospects in the 2025 NBA Draft Class
Richard C. Harris, Hoops Prospects
FREE AGENCY
Free agency 2025: Cap space, best fits for all 30 teams
Bobby Marks, ESPN
Free-agency 2025 primer: Key free agents, explaining the aprons and more
Zach Harper, The Athletic
Top 20 NBA free agents: Role players round out star-bereft class
Kai Gammage, Sportsnet
Free Agency 2025: Ranking The Top 50 Overall Players
Tommy Beer, Knicks Centric
Top 25 NBA Free Agents
Sam Amico, Hoops Wire
Top 30 NBA Free Agent Predictions
Eric Pincus, Bleacher Report
LEAGUEWIDE
Scouting the Top International Prospects in the 2025 NBA Draft Class
Richard C. Harris, Hoops Prospects
A new coveted archetype
Parker Fleming, Subtsakalidis
there’s an emerging archetype just as valuable as the “big wing”
Over the last several years, numerous playoff teams have deployed these valuable complementary players as combo guards. Their utility knows no limits. They can function on or off the ball, space the floor, and facilitate next actions. Most importantly, they’re defensive pests that are heinous at the point-of-attack, swarm in help defense, and wreak havoc to create turnovers.
2025 NBA Draft Notebook: Final Thoughts and Unfiltered Reactions
Rafael Barlowe, NBA Big Board
2025 NBA Draft Grades
Michael O, Draftstack
Achilles injuries have vexed the NBA. A Hall of Famer reflects, and doctors analyze
James Jackson, The Athletic
TEAM-SPECIFIC
ATL: Hawks are playoff team with Porziņģis, now GM Saleh can make them contenders
Michael Cunningham, AJC
BKN: Breaking down Nets’ 1st-round picks
Ryan Nieskins, The Brooklyn Game
IND: Pacers Reshape Backcourt With Two Picks
Tony Easy, Forbes
IND: Pacers Summer League: Rookies
Caitlin Cooper, Basketball She Wrote
MIA: NBA Finals showed depth matters; now can Heat make their developing depth matter?
Ira Winderman, SunSentinel
MIN: Anthony Edwards has lessons to learn from SGA
Jim Souhan, Star Tribune
MIN: Timberwolves’ mission during NBA free agency must be to add a point guard
Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune
OKC: ‘Got one together’: Arkansans Joe, Williams reflect on long road to joint NBA title
Matt Byrne, Democrat Gazette
OKC: Draft picks Sorber and Barnhizer embrace Thunder culture
Cliff Brunt, AP
ORL: Where Magic stand after NBA draft and what comes next
Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel
ORL: Magic's rookies are ready to compete, ready to win
Philip Rossman-Reich, World R Squared
PHI: Quentin Grimes, Guerschon Yabusele top 76ers’ offseason to-do list. Can they keep both?
Tony Jones, The Athletic
PHI: Sixers free agency: Will they be able to keep Quentin Grimes and Guerschon Yabusele?
Keith Pompey, The Inquirer
PHX: Suns went big. Now they need to go small
Chris Coppola, Arizona Republic
POR: Blazers' baffling Yang Hansen pick is actually pure genius
Nicholas Kula, Rip City Project
SAC: Free agency, trade and salary cap outlook for the Kings
Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee
TOR: Masai Ujiri's 13 season, unscripted legacy in Toronto and the aftershocks to come in his unceremonious dismissal.
Katie Heindl, Basketball Feelings
In each of these comes a core characteristic of the Toronto Raptors franchise under Masai Ujiri — passionate, galvanizing, fierce — but more important are the tenets of character Ujiri freely embodied and demonstrated. Empathy, conviction, trust, accountability; not top-of-mind traditional qualities we’d name if asked what it takes to build and lead a competitive pro-sports franchise, and yet they all pulse through the heart of fandom, create that rarified quality of team culture.
UTA: Regardless of Ace Bailey’s desires, Jazz made right move drafting him
Tony Jones, The Athletic
2026 DRAFT
2026 NBA mock draft
Sam Vecenie, The Athletic
2026 NBA Mock Draft
Jonathan Wasserman, Bleacher Report
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