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Basketball Intelligence For 9/25/25

Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

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Sep 25, 2025
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Ranking the Best Young Cores Ahead of 2025-26 NBA Season
Grant Hughes, Bleacher Report

Rookie roundtable
Fansided

NBA Rank 2025: Rankings for the top 10 players in the league
ESPN Insiders

NBA teams that will fall short of preseason projections
John Hollinger, The Athletic

The 2025-26 NBA League Pass Power Rankings!
Mike Shearer, Basketball Poetry

There’s discontent throughout the league with the CBA’s restrictive roster-building rules
Jake Fischer, The Stein Line

A Breakdown of the NBA’s Rules Regarding Cap Circumvention
Mark Deeks, Heavy

TEAM-SPECIFIC

ATL: Vit Krejci ready to put EuroBasket lessons into practice
Lauren Williams, AJC

BKN: An Interview With ABA Great Bill Melchionni
Ray LeBov, No Weak Stuff

Bill Melchionni, three-time ABA All-Star with the Nets, joins Ray to talk about Bill’s career from Villanova and across the NBA and ABA professionally. They discuss the 1973-1974 Nets, the youngest ABA title team, and the similarities between that team and the young title-winning Oklahoma City Thunder squad from last season. They talk about the history of the ABA and what it was like to be teammates with Julius Erving, Wilt Chamberlain, Billy Cunningham, John Williamson, and others, as well as Melchionni’s front office experience and other anecdotes from his time in basketball.

BI Note: As referenced in the interview, here is Bill’s 2001 Basketball Digest story about the ABA’s final game:

https://www.basketballintelligence.net/p/special-edition-anniversary-final-aba-game

BKN: Ben Saraf already impressing Nets with maturity, poise
Brian Lewis, NY Post

BOS: Celtics’ Offseason Check-In
Luke Adams, Hoops Rumors

CLE: Why the Cavs’ “MVP of September” could transform Cleveland’s starting lineup
Chris Fedor, cleveland.com

CLE: Inside Jaylon Tyson’s high-stakes battle to reinvent his game
Chris Fedor/Ethan Sands, cleveland.com

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