The NBA regular season is very long and every team goes through their respective peaks and valleys. With the end of the 2025–26 campaign coming to a close on Sunday, it’s an appropriate time to remember all those peaks and valleys for each of the league’s 30 teams. The front office personnel that make up those teams will be doing the same, and most will be looking for reasons to be optimistic about how the season unfolded—from the unexpected development of a young player to smart in-season transactions and anything in between.
We’d like to do the same. To recap this past NBA season, we dug into every team’s campaign and found one positive takeway for each organization to chew on as the offseason officially begins for those who didn’t qualify for postseason play. Some takeaways are significant, such as the 76ers hitting big on VJ Edgecombe. Others are more minor wins, like the Kings finding something in Maxime Raynaud. But they all represent good developments that should carry over into future seasons no matter how felt the impact might be.
