Sometimes, a defending champion picks up right where it left off when the following season starts up. Case in point: the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder are rolling to start the 2025-26 season.

We're more than two weeks into the NBA season and not everything has gone as predicted. The Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks, two fashionable picks to make noise in the Eastern Conference, stumbled at ...

Make what you will of the first few weeks of an NBA season, but know this: These games count the same as the ones after the turn of the calendar, and getting off to a good -- or bad -- start can be ...