Grading the Nuggets Season: What Went Right, Wrong for Denver After Disastrous Playoff Loss Evaluating the Nuggets’ season after their rough first-round loss to the rival Timberwolves. Sports Illustrated · May 1
Nuggets Offseason Preview: Denver’s Free Agents, Trade Candidates As It Looks to Retool Around Jokić, Murray A look at Nuggets who could be on the move this offseason after a disappointing playoff flameout. Sports Illustrated · May 1
Hawks Season Grades: Atlanta Is Building a Contender Despite First-Round Loss to Knicks Grading the Hawks’ season after it came to an end at the hands of the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs. Sports Illustrated · May 1
Chris Mannix’s NBA Notes: More Trail Blazers Cost-Cutting Moves Coming? Plus, Steve Kerr’s push to abandon the three-point line, whether Jamahl Mosley is still on the hot seat in Orlando and how the Cavaliers’ top players are meshing together. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
Why the Rams Passed on Makai Lemon, Kenyon Sadiq in Order to Draft Ty Simpson The Rams selected Ty Simpson when both Makai Lemon and Kenyon Sadiq were still on the board. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
Amazon to Broadcast College Sports Events for First Time in Landmark Deal With Duke Men’s Basketball The Blue Devils’ partnership with Amazon will include exclusive NIL opportunities for the program's players. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
Decades Ago, a Rising Pistons Team Survived a 3–1 Playoff Deficit to the Magic. Can Detroit Do It Again? The Pistons are headed back to Orlando down 3–2 to the Magic after a hard-fought Game 5 win. The NBA world is collectively shocked the No. 1 seed is on the edge Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
SI:CYMI | Gritty Gets His Flowers The Flyers are headed to the second round of the NHL playoffs. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
Lakers Let 3–0 Lead Slip Away As Rockets Seize Momentum of First-Round Playoff Series Los Angeles had a chance to close out the game and advance to the next round, but cold shooting and turnovers let Houston’s young core take control. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
The Pistons Needed Cade Cunningham to Dominate—He Put Up a Historic Performance to Keep Season Alive Cunningham’s 45 points Wednesday to powered Detroit to a Game 5 win over Orlando. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
NBA Playoffs: Rockets Down Lakers, Cade Cunningham Saves Pistons The Rockets beat the Lakers to avoid elimination, Cade Cunningham saved the Pistons with a record performance, and the balanced Cavaliers took a 3-2 lead over the Raptors. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29
Why LeBron James Doesn’t Want to Be Like Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony When He Retires The 41-year-old already has a plan in place for when he eventually retires. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29
The Celtics’ Biggest Problem Right Now Is the Disappearance of One of Their Best Players Boston lost Game 5 thanks to a horrid fourth quarter, but the team’s biggest issue lies with the struggles of one of their most important players. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29
Why LeBron James Says He’s Never Compared His Game to Michael Jordan’s Plus, his thoughts on the “tiring” GOAT debate. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 Where Diego Pavia Fits in Ravens’ QB Room and His Chances At Making the Roster Baltimore has signed Pavia to a three-year deal after originally inviting him to their rookie minicamp. Can the former Vanderbilt quarterback make the team?
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 What Victor Wembanyama Said After Winning First Career Playoff Series Wemby moves on to his first-ever conference semifinals.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 SI:CYMI | Diego Pavia Is an NFL QB Plus, all the other drama you've missed in sports this week.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 Blazers Offseason Preview: Free Agency, Draft Assets, Damian Lillard’s Return and More The Portland Trail Blazers took a big step forward this season. Deni Avdija became a star while the team’s youth movement showed progress and Damian Lillard will return next season. Here’s a full offseason preview.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 Blazers Season Grades: Evaluating Portland’s Campaign After Hard-Fought Playoff Loss to Spurs Breaking down how this season went for the Trail Blazers after they were eliminated from the playoffs by the Spurs on Tuesday night.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 With Kevin Durant’s Game 5 Status Official, These Three Rockets Will Need to Step Up Again to Stay Alive vs. Lakers With the Rockets’ season on the brink, who must step up to survive Game 5 against the Lakers without Kevin Durant?
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 The NBA’s Proposed Anti-Tanking Fix Could Create a Bigger Problem The league’s aggressive “3-2-1” lottery overhaul is designed to eliminate tanking, but it could punish the wrong teams and reshape the draft in unintended ways.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 29 What’s Next for Kentucky Hoops After Missing Out on 2026 No. 1 Recruit Tyran Stokes The Wildcats’ offseason takes another hit as Mark Pope searches for late answers on the wing with few elite options remaining.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 28 Tyran Stokes, No. 1 Prospect in 2026 Class, Announces Commitment to Kansas Live on ESPN Stokes, the nation’s top player, made his decision between two national powerhouses live on ESPN.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 28 Louisiana Tech Settles Conference Drama After Contentious Split From CUSA It’s the second realignment-related legal saga to make headlines in as many months.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 28 Chris Mannix’s NBA Notes: Disaster in Detroit, Joel Embiid Needs to Do Less Plus a look at the still unwritten rules of basketball that have once again been brought up by the Wolves and Nuggets.