Basketball Intelligence For 8/4/25
The day's best basketball news and reporting.
*FEATURE OF THE DAY*
Exits: What can kindness count for?
Katie Hendl, Basketball Feelings
LEAGUEWIDE
It's Contract Extension Season
Jared Dubin, Last Night, In Basketball
If the Knicks are getting the version of Bridges they got last season, it's an overpay by several million dollars per year. If they're getting the version of Bridges they thought they were getting when they traded for him, it's probably neutral value. They're probably getting a version of Bridges somewhere in between those two poles, which probably makes it a slight overpay but not a disastrous one.
NBA all-in tiers: What all 30 teams are chasing in 2025-26
Tim Bontemps/Kevin Pelton, ESPN
2025 NBA offseason grades: Rating each team’s summer moves
The Athletic
Sunday Best: The latest, hottest and freshest NBA summer Intel
Marc Stein, The Stein Line
Palo Alto native Jeremy Lin is guiding the next wave of Asian American basketball players
Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News
TEAM NEWS
ATL: Quinn Snyder finally has roster to do something he's waited years for
Sam Allred, Soaring Down South
ATL: The only thing holding Jalen Johnson back from being an All-Star
Sam Allred, Soaring Down South
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