NBA Playoffs: Winners And Losers From the First Weekend of Games A look back at the first weekend of playoff hoops as the higher seeded teams held serve across Game 1s. For the most part, at least. Sports Illustrated · Apr 20
NBA Announces Finalists for MVP, Rookie of the Year, Other End-of-Season Awards All the finalists for this year’s NBA awards. Sports Illustrated · Apr 19
NBA Playoffs: Takeaways As Magic Upset Pistons, Victor Wembanyama Shines in Playoff Debut Live scores, updates and takeaways from Sunday’s NBA playoff games. Sports Illustrated · Apr 19
Joel Embiid Leads NBA Playoff Injury Reports Ahead of Sunday’s Games A look at injury reports for all of Sunday’s Game 1 action in the NBA playoffs. Sports Illustrated · Apr 18
How to watch NBA Playoffs 2026: FREE live streams, TV schedule All the ways to watch NBA Playoffs 2026 live streams online, as Jalen Brunson and Victor Wembanyama headline the Knicks vs Spurs NBA Finals series. Tom’s Guide · Apr 18
NBA Playoff Power Ranking: Where Every Team Stands Heading Into the First Round There are 16 teams left to battle for the championship—how do they stack up against each other? Sports Illustrated · Apr 18
Top Five Players We Want to See Win Their First NBA Championship As the NBA’s young stars take over, some seasoned veterans are still on the hunt for their first Larry O’Brien trophy. Sports Illustrated · Apr 18
Five NBA Playoffs Burning Questions: Knicks’ Title Chances, LeBron James’s Leadership Plus, is it too soon for San Antonio to break through, how far can Jayson Tatum take the Celtics after returning from injury and if the Pistons are built for the postseason. Sports Illustrated · Apr 17
NBA playoff predictions 2026: the winner, key players and dark horses Will a Thunder repeat end an NBA-record run of seven different champions in seven years? Our writers make their picks ahead of Saturday’s postseason tip-off The Guardian - US · Apr 17
Five Trends That Could Decide 2026 NBA Playoffs: How Wembanyama’s Minutes, Nuggets Defense Impact Title Chase The NBA regular season runs from October to April. Every team plays at least 82 games (and two lucky squads play 83 if they qualify for the in-season tournament Sports Illustrated · Apr 16
SI:AM | Play-In Thrillers Were a Perfect NBA Playoffs Appetizer The Heat-Hornets and Trail Blazers-Suns games were a welcome break from the usual play-in snoozefests. Sports Illustrated · Apr 15
One Positive Takeaway for Every NBA Team From the 2025–26 Season Looking back on this NBA season and finding one positive takeaway for each of the league’s 30 teams. Sports Illustrated · Apr 14
The Best and Worst Case Scenario for Every NBA Team in the Postseason Postseason expectations have a pretty wide range in the NBA. Sports Illustrated · Apr 14
NBA Playoffs: Ranking the Superstar Matchups We Want to See in the First Round Ranking the six NBA superstar matchups we want to see the most in the first round of the 2026 postseason. Sports Illustrated · Apr 12
Sports Illustrated · Apr 10 NBA Playoff Picture: Everything at Stake for Every Seed During Friday’s Games Here’s what every playoff team is playing for during a busy Friday slate.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 9 76ers’ Joel Embiid to Undergo Surgery Thursday in Houston After Sudden Health Issue Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was diagnosed with appendicitis and will undergo surgery.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 9 How Cade Cunningham Performed in First Pistons Game Since Suffering Collapsed Lung How Cade Cunningham played in his first game for the Pistons since suffering a collapsed lung.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 1 NBA Championship Power Rankings: Knicks’ Status As True Contender in Question Amid Losing Streak Breaking down the Knicks’ shaky status as a true contender in this week’s NBA championship power rankings.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 30 Bulls Waive Jaden Ivey Following Anti-LGBTQ Remarks in Social Media Videos Ivey was traded to the Bulls in February.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 30 NBA Playoff Picture: Everything at Stake With Two Weeks Remaining in Regular Season Breaking down everything at stake in the NBA playoff picture with two weeks to go in the regular season.
AAP · Mar 26 Daniels hits new mark as red-hot Hawks pip No.1 Pistons Dyson Daniels had Atlanta statisticians searching through the record books after his latest effort as the Hawks beat Eastern Conference leaders Detroit in OT.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 25 NBA Championship Power Rankings: Why the Timberwolves Have Been Eliminated The Timberwolves were the latest team to get eliminated in SI’s weekly NBA championship power rankings.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 24 Chris Mannix’s NBA Notebook: Victor Wembanyama Makes Loud MVP Case Plus, the Clippers investigation looms at the Board of Governors meeting this week, there are problems in Houston and the Pistons keep motoring along.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 24 How Pistons’ Unlikely Heroes Snapped Lakers’ Nine-Game Winning Streak The Lakers can lose after all.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 22 As Jalen Williams Returns, the NBA-Best Thunder Are Only Getting Scarier Williams’s season has been plagued by injuries, but he’s back and ready for the playoffs.