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We’re at the end of the NBA regular season, and this is the final Awards Watch for 2025-26. As I write this, I have not submitted my official ballot, nor have I committed to any actual votes. But I’ll use this space to think out loud and try to figure out some conclusions before it’s…

We’re at the end of the NBA regular season, and this is the final Awards Watch for 2025-26. As I write this, I have not submitted my official ballot, nor have I committed to any actual votes. But I’ll use this space to think out loud and try to figure out some conclusions before it’s…

Welcome to adulthood, Zaccharie Risacher. The first pick in the 2024 NBA draft spent his 21st birthday glued to the Atlanta bench in the Hawks’ 122-116 loss to Cleveland on Wednesday, the first “DNP-coach’s decision” — or healthy scratch — of his career. Risacher started the first two-thirds of the season but was removed from…

Tyrese Haliburton’s rehab from a ruptured Achilles has reached a new milestone. On Wednesday evening, the two-time All-Star announced on X that he played 5-on-5 basketball for the first time since suffering his injury in Game 7 of last year’s NBA Finals. The injury has kept him out of the entire 2025-26 season. Advertisement Throughout…

Count Anthony Davis as one of the many people who were confused on the night of Feb. 1, 2025, when word began to circulate that he’d been traded for Luka Dončić. In an episode of “The Draymond Green Show” that went live Wednesday, Davis went into detail about the night he found out his time…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. Today would have been the 86th birthday of John Havlicek, who died in 2019. Havlicek had one of the more underrated careers. He won eight championships in 16 years (six with Bill Russell) and scored 26,395…

PHOENIX — The burst came early in the fourth quarter. A driving dunk. An easy put-back. Eight quick Houston Rockets points. A timeout to hold off the avalanche. A lost opportunity. The Phoenix Suns are running out of time. They know it. Not all of them care to discuss it. After Tuesday night’s 119-105 loss…

The words don’t matter anymore. Whether it’s Giannis Antetokounmpo giving his side of this never-ending saga like he has so many times this season, or longtime Milwaukee Bucks general manager Jon Horst sitting down for a long interview with the team’s beat writers on Tuesday, the time has long since come for us to focus…

NEW YORK — The 2025-26 season has not gone the way anyone associated with the Milwaukee Bucks wanted it to go. The Bucks (31-48) have been eliminated from Play-In Tournament contention for more than a week, and they will miss the playoffs for the first time since the 2015-16 season. In the lead-up to a…

OG Anunoby could tell the future. No, the New York Knicks’ all-defensive wing didn’t know a pass would drift into his hands. He didn’t predict the exact fashion of yet another steal or the fast break that followed. But he could detect where the Denver Nuggets were heading next. Clairvoyance came during an early-March decimation…