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*FEATURES OF THE DAY*
NBA injury updates: Roundup of key players with injuries to start season
James H. Williams, USA Today
Will the NBA’s Parity Streak End in 2025-26? Flip a Coin.
Neil Paine, Neil’s Substack
LEAGUEWIDE
NBA Power Rankings for 2025-26 season tip-off: Thunder on top; Hawks are contenders
Law Murray, The Athletic
2025-26 Predictions
Jared Dubin, Last Night, In Basketball
From Cooper Flagg to Tyronn Lue, my fearless predictions for the 2025-26 NBA season
John Hollinger, The Athletic
NBA preview roundtable: Which teams face the most pressure this season?
James L. Edwards III/Nick Friedell/Josh Robbins, The Athletic
Southeast Division preview
Kelly Dwyer, Kelly Dwyer on Hoops
2025/26 Award Predictions
Nic Thomas, Nic Thomas on the NBA
Preseason overreactions: How real are these 7 NBA trends?
Joseph Casciaro, The Score
BI: Many Heat fans are coming to the realization that those who followed Ware in college struggled with: this is a player whose inconsistent effort has the ability to undermine his exceptional physical gifts.
Analyzing the Atlantic Division heading into the 2025-26 NBA season
David Vertsberger, SNY
2025-26 NBA season preview: Rankings, predictions, odds
ESPN
The 2025-26 NBA Entrance Survey
The Ringer
TEAM NEWS
BOS: Preseason Player Grades
Jacob Issenberg, Celtics Blog
BOS: Celtics writers preview the season: Should they take a gap year? Should Jayson Tatum return? And who could be a surprise?
Adam Himmelsbach/Gary Washburn, The Boston Globe
Maybe this will be a one-year lull. Maybe it will be the start of a more prolonged downturn. Or maybe this group will take a page from the Isaiah Thomas years and turn into a plucky group of overachievers. There’s been talk that this will be a “gap year” as the team awaits Tatum’s eventual return, but no one within the organization is viewing it that way. At least not yet.