Basketball Intelligence For 7/26/25
The day's best basketball news and reporting.
*FEATURE OF THE DAY*
On The Up: Low-Usage Players Who Deserve a Bigger Role Next Season
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
TEAM NEWS
ATL: The AJC’s Hawks quarter-century team: A look at the third-team selections
Lauren Williams, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BOS: Why tempered expectations for retooling Celtics are worth embracing
Chris Forberg, NBC Sports Boston
Could the 2025-26 Celtics have a similar glow up?
OK, maybe a deep playoff trek is ambitious. But we’d submit that this year’s team with Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, and Payton Pritchard at the helm might have more top-end talent than that 2016-17 group. You can fret over the potential depth of this squad, but 1) We don’t suspect this is a finished roster, and 2) Gerald Green was starting key playoff games for the 2016-17 group, so it wasn’t like that team was swimming in depth, either. James Young and Jordan Mickey combined to play 54 games that year.
BOS: Celtics just clarified what fans missed about a crucial offseason development
Bobby Krivitsky, Hardwood Houdini
DAL: Mavericks turn the NBA's biggest draft mistake into an endless goldmine
Noah Weber, The Smoking Cuban
DEN: Adelman passes ‘crash first test’ — now the fun begins
Kerry Eggers, The Dean Of Portland Sports
DEN: Nuggets' most intriguing offseason question still remains to be answered
Ben Handler, Nugg Love
MIA: Perfect solution to Heat's biggest problem might already be on the roster
Zach Buckley, All U Can Heat
MIL: Bucks are throwing Doc Rivers a layup (he cannot afford to miss it)
Dalton Sell, Behind The Bucks Pass
OKC: Making Sense of OKC Thunder's Backup Point Guard Situation
Michael Stamps, SI.com
ORL: Jase Richardson’s dad is an NBA dunk contest legend, but he was coached by his mom
Martenzie Johnson, Andscape
Paul-Richardson is a basketball junkie. Both her parents played basketball at junior colleges in Michigan. She knows the who’s who of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL), and despises the modern game of basketball, which emphasizes 3-pointers. Growing up, Paul-Richardson didn’t want to be like Mike; she wanted to be Michael Jordan.
ORL: Tyus Jones is insurance for the Orlando Magic's by-committee approach
Philip Rossman-Reich, World R Squared
PHI: Shocking Cam Thomas update shows why 76ers aren't budging with Quentin Grimes
Jacob Moren, The Sixer Sense
PHX: What chasing Kuminga says about the Suns
Jon Voita, Bright Side Of The Sun
SAC: Kings star DeMar DeRozan reveals ‘cheat code' to his elite mid-range game
Joaquin Ruiz, NBC Sports
SAS: Victor Wembanyama’s Very Fascinating No-Basketball Summer
Danny Chau, The Ringer