Articles: Basketball

Orlando Magic at Sacramento Kings | Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 10 PM ET | Golden 1 Center, Sacramento | NBA regular season Sacramento has won once in ten games. Orlando has won twice in nine. Yet the Kings are laying 5.5 points tonight, an unusually confident handicap for a team sitting near the bottom […]

Brooklyn Nets at Dallas Mavericks | Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 7:30 PM ET | American Airlines Center, Dallas | NBA regular season Dallas is favored by 9.5 points against Brooklyn tonight. The Mavericks have the better record, a deeper group of established contributors, and the advantage of playing at home. But winning and covering […]

Golden State has three losses, tired legs, and a nasty problem waiting in Denver. Nikola Jokic doesn’t need to overpower the Warriors to beat them. He can make their defense chase shadows until somebody loses his assignment. But Draymond Green and Al Horford are returning, and that changes the fight around the basket. The real […]

The Atlanta Dream enter Game 5 as narrow underdogs, but the opening odds conceal a more complicated contest than the gap between these teams suggests. The evidence from their previous meetings raises an uncomfortable question about which side actually holds the advantage. Bookmaker Sportsbook opening line: Atlanta +105, Golden State -119; Atlanta +1.5 (-108), Golden […]

The Atlanta Dream are one victory away from putting the Golden State Valkyries in a very uncomfortable position. And Angel Reese has a particularly unpleasant way of making every missed shot feel like the beginning of another defensive possession. Saturday’s Game 4 of the WNBA Finals presents Golden State with a problem that goes beyond […]

“I don’t need to do more. I need to think less.” Victor Wembanyama has identified an uncomfortable problem before Friday’s Houston Rockets–San Antonio Spurs showdown: his extraordinary physical advantages become less effective when every offensive possession turns into a calculation. Houston offers little relief. Ime Udoka can surround the 7-foot-4 center with Alperen Sengun, Jabari […]

Chet Holmgren has just helped Oklahoma City suffocate one of basketball’s most intimidating interior scorers. Now Nikola Jokić brings a completely different problem. Jokić doesn’t require a clear route to the basket to dismantle a defense. He can punish help defenders before they commit, find cutters behind the play and turn aggressive coverage into open […]

Devin Vassell believes San Antonio’s new starting lineup will leave opponents wondering whom to defend. “You don’t know who to pick up,” he said Thursday, pointing to De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper. There’s a problem with that theory. Oklahoma City specializes in making ballhandlers uncomfortable, and the Spurs are about to put three […]

Becky Hammon taught Natalie Nakase how to win championships. Now her former assistant is one victory away from ending Hammon’s season, with the defending champions facing a sweep and A’ja Wilson collecting a fifth MVP award as her teammates contemplate an unusually early vacation. There is something exquisitely cruel about receiving another individual trophy while […]

“This loss is on me.” Sabrina Ionescu has accepted responsibility for New York’s overtime collapse against Atlanta. Admirable. Unfortunately, accountability does not count as a successful pass against Jordin Canada’s defense. The Liberty return to Brooklyn trailing 0-2, with elimination waiting on Friday. Ionescu’s problem is not simply finding her shot. It is escaping the […]