The 2025-26 NBA season is officially underway. Unfortunately, injuries are already plaguing a number of teams, while some franchises never quite fixed their offseason weaknesses.

Maybe! Those were among the responses The Athletic got this week when it asked its NBA staff for bold predictions for the 2025-26 season. Here’s one prediction for each team as the season tips off: The Hawks finish with a top-10 defense: Atlanta was 19th in defensive efficiency last season and has never finished in the top half of the league in the Trae Young era.

The NBA 2025-26 season opens this week. Here is what to know about opening night for NBA and the Phoenix Suns.

Four Oregon Ducks under coach Dana Altman have made their 2025-26 NBA debut this week. Altman has coached 17 former Ducks who have spent time in the league. Un

Do the Rockets make a move for a point guard? Which former Celtic will have the biggest impact on his new team? Questions: We've got 'em!

A record 55 of 135 international players competing in the new NBA season, which opened this week, are from the African continent or are first-generation members of the diaspora.

E very year the NBA prides itself on being the industry leader in alternate jerseys. City editions, city connects, throwbacks, re-colors, remixes... you never know how they'll be branded. Some are bad, some are good, most are totally O.K.. Some jerseys will come and go and some will return or be reimagined.