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The regular season may be over, but there’s still time needed for the dust to settle.

Now that teams are locked into their positions, it’s time to look at where the Houston Rockets’ 2026 first-round pick owed to the Sixers ended up. The Rockets ended the season winning nine of out of their last 10 games, finishing with a 52-30 record and fifth in the Western Conference.

That’s the exact same record as the Cleveland Cavaliers, who owe their first-round pick to the Atlanta Hawks. Some time in the coming weeks or months the NBA will hold a random drawing between the Sixers and Hawks to determine who picks at 22 and who picks at 23.

A random drawing is the only tiebreaker used in these scenarios, there aren’t any other records factored in. The Rockets beat the Cavs in both of their matchups this regular season, but the Cavs finished with both a better conference record and division record.

As Adam Aaronson of Philly Voice has pointed out, these random drawings have been kind to the Sixers in previous years. They won the last two they were in involved in back in the 2020 and 2024 draft, respectively. Ironically, the player they drafted after winning the ‘24 tiebreaker was used to acquire this 2026 first-rounder from Houston via the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Sixers have a good recent history with draft tiebreakers:

2024: Won a four-way tie, picked No. 16 overall (Jared McCain)

2020: Won a three-way tie, picked No. 21 overall (Tyrese Maxey) https://t.co/ClCtDvm36I

— Adam Aaronson (@SixersAdam) April 13, 2026

This ended up being a kind second half of the season pick-wise for the Sixers despite Houston ending the season on a surge. They dropped down a seed and potentially two spots down in draft order since this tracker was launched. Now it’s up to the Sixers’ front office to use that pick well enough to make the fanbase stop complaining about the Jared McCain trade.

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Over the course of his 23-season NBA career, LeBron James has pulled off innumerable heroic feats.

However, at 41, he may be up for his tallest task yet when his Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves-less Los Angeles Lakers take on Kevin Durant’s No. 5 Houston Rockets in the Divisional Round of the NBA Playoffs.

If you’d like to see if James — along with a starting five made up of DeAndre Ayton, Marcus Smart, Jake LaRavia and Luke Kennard — have the guts and gusto scrap out a victory, tickets are available for all four hypothetical home games at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena as of today.

At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on seats for any one contest was $142 including fees on StubHub.

Should you opt to road-trip to Houston, prices start at $179 including fees for games at the Rockets’ Toyota Center.

When the two clubs met in the regular season, Los Angeles swiped two of three contests from Houston but that was largely thanks to 36 and 40-point scoring efforts from Dončić on March 16 and 18.

Still, head coach J.J. Redick is optimistic that his Lakers can compete.

“Houston’s obviously a really good basketball team and we’re gonna prepare and we’re gonna fight and we’re gonna go try to win the series,” Redick, 41, said in a postgame press conference.

“We’re gonna do everything we can to get our guys in a great frame of mind, great physical shape over the next four or five days and be ready to play.”

On a promising note, the LAL closed the regular season on an impressive three-game win-streak where they blew out the Warriors, Suns and Jazz.

Will this be LeBron’s most heroic series to date over an already storied career?

Although we can’t say for certain, we do know you’ll want to be in the building to see King James take on KD for the fourth time in the playoffs and first since 2018.

For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about the Lakers vs. Rockets 2026 NBA Playoffs series below.

Lakers playoff home game tickets

A complete calendar including all announced Lakers home game dates and the best prices on tickets can be found here:

Lakers home game dates	Ticket prices start at
Game One Saturday, April 18	$166(fees included)
Game Two TBD	$142(fees included)
Game Five TBD	$174(fees included)
Game Seven TBD	$219(fees included)

Houston Rockets playoff home game tickets

All Rockets playoff home game dates and the cheapest tickets available can be found below.

Rockets home game dates	Ticket prices start at
Game Three TBD	$179(fees included)
Game Four TBD	$191(fees included)
Game Six TBD	$205(fees included)

How to watch the Lakers and Rockets on TV

Fans hoping to catch LeBron and co. on the tube can watch all first-round playoff games on ABC, ESPN, TNT, Prime Video, NBC and NBA TV.

Just make sure to review your local listings before tuning in.

If you don’t have cable, your best bet may be DIRECTV.

About Lakers-Rockets

As noted above, the Lakers and Rockets met three times over the course of the 2025-26 campaign. Los Angeles won two; Houston came out on top on Christmas Day.

However, losing Luka Dončić and Reaves in early April changes everything.

Now, the Rockets’ young nucleus of Amen Thompson, Reed Sheppard, Jabari Smith Jr. and Alperen Sengun loom larger than ever.

Thankfully, the Rockets turned the ball over the fourth most in the NBA this season. If the Lakers capitalize, anything can happen.

Especially if Luka dons the purple and gold yet again this year; he’s been in Spain undergoing treatment on his injured leg over the past few days and may return.

2026 NBA playoff schedule

Been meaning to see who’s on the playoff bubble?

Check out the NBA’s 2026 playoff hopefuls here.

Huge 2026 concerts

Looking for entertainment outside of the NBA playoffs?

We’ve got you covered.

Here are just five huge artists you won’t want to miss live these next few months.

• J. Cole

• Gorillaz

• Wu-Tang Clan

• BTS

• RUSH

Want to see who else is on the road? Check out our list of all the biggest concert tours in 2026 to find the show for you.

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Oddsmakers don’t seem to believe the Lakers have much of a chance to beat the Rockets in their upcoming postseason matchup.

Los Angeles has opened up as a massive underdog against Houston, according to oddsmakers at BetMGM.

The gambling outlet has given the Rockets -800 odds to beat the Lakers, meaning bettors would have to throw down a whopping $800 just to win $100.

Conversely, the Lakers have received +550 odds to win the series, giving gamblers an opportunity to make $550 on a $100 bet.

LA learned on Sunday it’d be playing Kevin Durant and the Rockets after it beat the Jazz, 131–107, at Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers officially earned the No. 4 seed with the victory, pitting them against No. 5-seeded Houston.

Part of the reason the Lakers aren’t expected to beat the Rockets, of course, is their health.

Luka Dončić (hamstring) and Austin Reaves (oblique) have both been sidelined since April 2 after they suffered injuries in a road loss to the Thunder, and neither appears likely to play in the first round of the playoffs.

NBA insider Shams Charania, however, reported during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday that there is a chance Dončić could suit up at some point after he spent the last few days in Spain undergoing treatment on his injured leg.

“My understanding is he’ll be back in the States on Tuesday,” Charania said. “And then they’re going to reevaluate him.”

Game 1 of the Lakers vs. Rockets series will begin at 5:30 p.m. PT on Saturday in Los Angeles.

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The Bucks’ 2025–26 regular season is mercifully over, and while we still have more questions than answers—including a now-official question as to who will be coaching them come October—we do have more clarity on where Milwaukee could be drafting in June. As you’ll read, while the standings are set in stone, the lottery odds for other teams are not. Because of the Bucks’ pick swap with the Pelicans, they still have to wait to find out how many ping-pong ball combinations they have. Let’s dive in.

Official 2026 NBA Lottery Odds

Based on the end-of-season standings, here is the current lottery order (with each position’s odds to receive the no. 1 pick) for the 2026 NBA Draft Lottery on May 10:

1. Washington Wizards — protected 1–8 (14%)
2. Indiana Pacers — protected 1–4, to Clippers if fifth or sixth (14%)
3. Brooklyn Nets (14%)
4. Utah Jazz — top-8 protected (11.5%)
5. Sacramento Kings (11.5%)
6. Memphis Grizzlies (9%)
7. New Orleans Pelicans (6.8%)
8. Dallas Mavericks (6.7%)
9. Chicago Bulls (4.5%)
10. Milwaukee Bucks (3%)
11. Golden State Warriors (2%)
12. Oklahoma City Thunder — via Clippers (1.5%)*
13. Miami Heat (1%)*
14. Charlotte Hornets (0.5%)*

*These play-in teams could move out of the lottery if they advance into the 16-team playoff field, and be replaced by any of Portland, Orlando, Phoenix, or Philadelphia, though each of those teams’ picks is encumbered by swaps. S

Another note: the Jazz and Kings both finished with the same record, as did the Pelicans and Mavericks. Random tiebreakers will occur to determine which team receives the more favorable lottery placement. This will have some bearing on where the Bucks pick, as a better placement for the Pelicans increases the Bucks’ chances of drafting before 10th by 3.4% due to the swap. So we don’t actually know their true odds just yet.

As you likely know, the listed lottery odds for the team that finishes 10th aren’t actually what the Bucks have. In reality, they have a zero percent chance of receiving the top pick because in 2020, they traded swap rights to their 2026 first-round pick to the Pelicans in exchange for Jrue Holiday. Now, New Orleans has since traded those swap rights to Atlanta, so as I referred to above, what will end up happening is that the Hawks will receive whichever pick between the Bucks’ and Pelicans’ ends up more favorable. The Bucks will receive the less favorable choice.

Morgan and I delved into this a bit back in February, but now that the season is over, let’s go over how things actually shake out, factoring in the swap. We have to wait for the results of the tiebreaker to know their final odds, but here are the chances the Bucks will receive any lottery pick based on finishing 10th:

Bucks’ pick	If Pelicans are 7th	If Pelicans are 8th
1	0.0%	0.0%
2	0.5%	0.4%
3	1.2%	1.0%
4	2.3%	1.9%
5	0.0%	0.0%
6	0.0%	0.0%
7	0.0%	0.0%
8	5.4%	0.0%
9	5.4%	8.0%
10	61.5%	64.6%
11	21.5%	21.8%
12	1.7%	1.7%
13	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
14	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
AVG	9.8	9.9

Obviously, odds are the Bucks will draft 10th. If they hadn’t dealt the swap rights to their pick, their odds of drafting 10th would be 65.9%, and they’d face about a 20.2% chance of dropping down further. Unfortunately, New Orleans decided to win a lot more in the second half of the year and finished somewhat close to Milwaukee in the standings, which upped the odds of Milwaukee falling back to between 23.1% and 23.5%, depending on that tiebreaker.

For what it’s worth, had they lost one more game and finished ninth in the lotto standings, their odds of still ending up with the 10th pick were still between 29.5% and 33.4%, while their odds at the top four improved from 3.3% or 4% (depending on if NOLA is seventh or eighth) to 4.8% to 5.8%. Their most likely draft position would have been ninth at 52% or 56.7%. Shoutout to Morgan for figuring out the code to calculate all these odds.

Anyway, since you should abandon all hope of receiving the number one overall pick, your dreams of Milwaukee receiving the second pick would only become reality if New Orleans (actually Atlanta) wins the lottery. The odds of that happening are less than half a percent. But the tiebreaker does improve the Bucks’ chances of netting a top-four selection from 3.3% to 4%, so take that for what you will.

Final 2025–26 NBA Standings

Here are the final standings for each conference, with the play-in ultimately set to decide who will face the top two seeds in each. The no. 2 seed in each conference will play the winner of the 7-8 game, while the no. 1 seed will play the winner of the next game, between the loser of the 7-8 game and the winner of the 9-10 game. 

Eliminated teams in italics.

Eastern Conference

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Boston Celtics
3. New York Knicks
4. Cleveland Cavaliers
5. Toronto Raptors
6. Atlanta Hawks
7. Philadelphia 76ers (play-in)
8. Orlando Magic (play-in)
9. Charlotte Hornets (play-in)
10. Miami Heat (play-in)
11. Milwaukee Bucks
12. Chicago Bulls
13. Brooklyn Nets
14. Indiana Pacers
15. Washington Wizards

Western Conference

1. Oklahoma City Thunder
2. San Antonio Spurs
3. Denver Nuggets
4. Los Angeles Lakers
5. Houston Rockets
6. Minnesota Timberwolves
7. Phoenix Suns (play-in)
8. Portland Trail Blazers (play-in)
9. LA Clippers (play-in)
10. Golden State Warriors (play-in)
11. New Orleans Pelicans
12. Dallas Mavericks
13. Memphis Grizzlies
14. Sacramento Kings
15. Utah Jazz

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The first round of the playoffs can be somewhat of a formality, regardless of the sport. The NBA Playoffs, however, have provided a little spice early on in recent postseasons.

We’ve recently watched lower-seeded squads burn their opening round opponents and make a deep run, like Miami in 2023, Dallas in 2024, and Minnesota last year.

The 2026 NBA Playoff bracket is top-heavy, with the Top 2 seeds in the East and West boasting a significant gap between them and the rest of the field. But that doesn’t mean everything will go according to plan, as my NBA Playoff upset predictions and underdog rankings explain.

With the Play-In Tournament tipping off tonight, my NBA picks size up the teams seeded No. 5 through No. 10 in each conference and their “spice” level based on a potential first-round upset possibility.

No. 5 Seeds

Toronto Raptors: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Toronto Raptors (+425 series price) draw the Cleveland Cavaliers in the opening round. Toronto did beat Cleveland in all three matchups, but those came before the calendar flipped to 2026.

The Raptors have a solid defense, but may not have the scoring punch to keep pace with the Cavs’ superstars and size. 

The health of PG Immanuel Quickley is a biggest question. Without him, it makes Scottie Barnes a ball-handler and dulls his scoring punch.

Toronto needs all the points it can produce if this series turns into a shootout.

Houston Rockets (via L.A. Lakers): 🌶️

Tough to call the No. 5 Houston Rockets a “spicy” upset pick when they’re -750 series favorites against the fourth-seeded L.A. Lakers. Houston faces an injury-gutted Los Angeles squad and whatever is left of LeBron James.

Instead, I measure the Lakers’ chances of advancing without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. Maybe L.A. gets one game. Maybe. And that’s giving LeBron a lot of credit.

No. 6 Seeds

Atlanta Hawks: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

If the NBA postseason was an episode of “Hot Ones,” the Atlanta Hawks would be Da Bomb Beyond Insanity sauce, an almost chemical aroma that floods the senses with pain and confusion. 

The Hawks’ “Three and D” style has a similar effect and is made for postseason upsets, especially when that opponent is the inconsistent New York Knicks.

Atlanta went 1-2 versus New York, but those losses were both decided by three points. There’s a reason the Hawks are the shortest Round 1 underdog at +230 to win the series.

Minnesota Timberwolves: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Not that Anthony Edwards lacked confidence, but an underdog with hope is a dangerous one.

The Minnesota Timberwolves (+270) aren’t afraid of the Denver Nuggets, not after knocking out Denver in 2024 and advancing to the West finals in back-to-back years.

The T-Wolves are healthy, and if the Nuggets can’t tighten the bolts defensively, every game is a coin-flip in a shootout series.

No. 7 Seeds

Philadelphia 76ers: 🌶️🌶️

The Philadelphia 76ers will start the postseason without Joel Embiid after an appendectomy last week. Two to four weeks is the normal recovery time.

The Sixers play Orlando in the Play-In and would take on either Detroit or Boston in the opening round.

With Embiid healthy, spicy Philly would require a glass of milk. Without him, it barely burns the lips.

Phoenix Suns: 🌶️

The Phoenix Suns play the Portland Trail Blazers in the Play-In Tournament, which is a tough draw considering how well Portland is playing. Should it survive the Play-In, Phoenix will face either OKC or San Antonio.

The Suns have a combined 4-5 SU record versus the best in the West, but don’t have the size to counter those foes through seven games.

No. 8 Seeds

Orlando Magic: 🌶️🌶️

The Orlando Magic left a bad taste in our mouths by botching the season finale against Boston’s skeleton squad, dropping to the No. 8 spot in the East. That means Orlando travels to Philadelphia in the Play-In opener.

The Magic aren’t particularly great at one area, and mental toughness as well as coaching is a major blemish.

Portland Trail Blazers: 🌶️🌶️

Do I think Portland can knock off OKC or San Antonio? No. Are they a pain in the ass to play? For sure.

The Trail Blazers bring momentum (10-5 SU last 15 games) and a pesky defense (No. 1 defensive rating in that span) into the postseason, facing Phoenix in the Play-In opener. 

No. 9 Seeds

Charlotte Hornets: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Charlotte Hornets need two wins to get to the playoffs, opening versus Miami at home in the Play-In.

The Hornets were 18-9 SU after the break, have a solid record versus .500+ teams, and are just young and dumb enough to give Detroit a scare. 

Charlotte owned the No. 2 offensive rating in the second half of the season.

Los Angeles Clippers: 🌶️

The Los Angeles Clippers went 19-30 against teams with records of .500 or above, including losing all three meetings with Oklahoma City. 

Los Angeles earned the No. 9 seed by feasting on mild opponents down the stretch and hasn’t scored a win worth a damn in a month.

No. 10 Seeds

Miami Heat: 🌶️

Regardless of the nickname, the Miami Heat are about as mild as “Taco Tuesday” at the Old Folks Home.

Miami has five wins in its last 15 games and two of those came against Washington. The Heat have hemorrhaged 127.5 points per game in that span.

Golden State Warriors: 🌶️

The Golden State Warriors’ motivation level sits somewhere between “trip to the dentist” and “attending your co-worker's improv show.” 

Draymond Green doesn’t want to be here, and Steve Kerr’s biggest concern is keeping Stephen Curry healthy for a final 48 minutes.

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The viral Pacers fan captured cursing at her boyfriend had some strong words for “creepy” Shaquille O’Neal after the couple appeared on “Inside the NBA.”

Michael and Grace were at the Nets-Pacers game last Thursday when, as Michael explained on ESPN, they were seen talking about the state of liberal arts education and how it “needed to be updated for how the future job market looks.”

However, that banal conversation went viral after a befuddled Grace was seen responding: “What the f–k are you talking about?” to Michael.

And that led to the couple being invited onto “Inside the NBA” for an interview on Sunday night.

O’Neal was not buying Michael’s explanation for the couple’s disagreement – and turned up the heat when he dared Michael to propose on live TV. The legendary big man even said he’d pay for the ring if Michael took the deal.

Ultimately, no proposal happened on air and Grace was left unimpressed by the Lakers icon.

“Shaq was like a creepy horny uncle trying to embarrass his nephew and I went along with it until the bit got embarrassing and I was like alright chill,'” she wrote on social media.

'Inside the NBA' had the viral Pacers couple join the show tonight.

Shaq was particularly honest and also offered to buy them an engagement ring. #NBAhttps://t.co/Yoa4FeRhxDpic.twitter.com/KQoYba26hm

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 13, 2026

“I’m glad my boyfriend got to meet the people whose videos he shows me constantly but God am I ready to be done with Sports people. I have found u generally exhausting and, forgive me for saying so, I mean this respectfully, not smart in the ways that matter to me. TO ME.”

Following Michael’s explanation of the couple’s disagreement – which Grace has since played down – Shaq pushed back on the Indiana fan.

“What’s his name? Michael?” Oneal said. “Michael, I love you, and I love your lovely wife, but I don’t believe that story you just told. You said something else for her to say, what the ef are you talking about? Stop it. Stop it. I can tell by your wife’s face that this was planned, and your answer was planned. What were you guys really talking about? Come on, come on.”

Michael then jumped in to correct him that they are not in fact, married.

“Did you just hear him correct you? He said ‘Not wife. Girlfriend,” Grace responded.

It was then that Shaq put Michael on the spot and offered a free engagement ring.

Michael, though, immediately began choking on his words, saying, “Listen,” as the “Inside the NBA” crew erupted.

“No, there ain’t no listen. Do it right now. Do it right now, get on your knee right now, and I’ll buy the ring,” O’Neal said. “Ask her right now, go ahead.”

Michael then countered that he would propose to Grace if the “Inside the NBA” crew agreed to come to their wedding – a request that O’Neal actually said he would abide by.

However, Grace added that she hadn’t agreed to the deal herself before Barkley joked: “You already cursed him out on national television. If you turn him down on national television, he has to abort, abort, abort.”

O’Neal’s offer to pay for the ring was generous, though it appears he had about a 30-second shot clock on it.

Should Michael and Grace choose to get engaged later on, that offer might be one that Michael wishes he took advantage of.

Grace – who already had a sizable following on X before this incident – appears done with the sports world after one fan told her to stop milking the couple’s 15 minutes of fame.

“I am literally packing it up girl,” she said. “That’s what this is.”

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Time has run out for NBA players hoping to bolster their cases to win MVP, Rookie of the Year, and a variety of other awards now that the regular season has concluded.

While reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is expected to win the league’s highest individual honor for a second time, the Rookie of the Year race has become one of the most-followed stories in sports.

Key Takeaways

• Gilgeous-Alexander is favored to win his second straight MVP after his team took the #1 seed in the West for the second consecutive season.
  
  
• Victor Wembanyama for Defensive Player of the Year is the largest favorite in any market.
  
  
• NBA players are not eligible for regular-season awards if they didn’t meet the 65-minimum game requirement (barring extreme circumstances).

Gilgeous-Alexander won the MVP last year while averaging 32.7 points, 6.4 assists, and 5.0 rebounds for the 68-14 Oklahoma City Thunder en route to a seven-game victory in the NBA Finals. He followed that up with 31.1 points, 6.6 assists, and 4.3 rebounds on a remarkable 55.3% shooting as his team finished atop the Western Conference for the second year running.

The 27-year-old’s excellence has given him a 95% chance to win the NBA MVP, according to users at the top prediction app Kalshi.

Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) and Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs) are both listed with 3% chances despite having remarkable seasons of their own.

While Wembanyama does not appear to be much of a threat to take Derrick Rose’s title as the youngest NBA MVP in history, he is a near shoo-in to win the Defensive Player of the Year. Kalshi lists him at 99% and everyone else at less than 1% to win the award.

The Rookie of the Year leaves the most intrigue for fans and voters. First-overall pick Cooper Flagg (Dallas Mavericks) sits at a 53% chance, and his former roommate at Duke, Kon Knueppel (Charlotte Hornets), is at 42%. 

Flagg appeared to have lost his grip on the race when he was sidelined by an injury for nearly a month from early February into March. However, 51 and 45-point scoring nights at the start of April made him the favorite again. He finished the year averaging 21.0 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 4.5 assists. 

Knueppel, the fourth pick in the draft, was the favorite as recently as April 5. He finished the season with the most made threes in the NBA and a stat line of 18.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.4 assists. He also missed just one game and was a driving force in the revitalization of the Hornets franchise.

While no other player received more than 1% chance to win the award, Kalshi believes there is a 6% chance that the vote will end in a tie. That hasn’t happened since 1999-00 and only occurred three times in NBA history, and it would result in Flagg and Knueppel being declared co-winners.

More NBA awards battles

The NBA attempts to highlight players who showed the most growth during the season by offering them the Most Improved Player award. Atlanta Hawks guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker soared in the market over the last month, moving from a 3% chance on March 14 to his current mark of 86%. Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren is second at 13%, and Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija is third at 2%.

Gilgeous-Alexander, Alexander-Walker’s cousin, is favored to win Clutch Player of the Year along with the MVP. He does not currently have an opponent with even a 1% chance.

The Spurs are shaping up to be the only team to have different players win individual regular-season awards, as Keldon Johnson is the frontrunner for the Sixth Man of the Year at Kalshi. Like Alexander-Walker, his 90% chance to claim the honor represents an enormous growth from the 15.4% chance he was given exactly one month ago. Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Miami Heat) is his only real competition at 6%.

Boston Celtics boss Joe Mazzulla is making a late surge to win Coach of the Year, climbing from 24% just one week ago to his current mark of 77%. Meanwhile, the Detroit Pistons’ J.B. Bickerstaff is at 26% despite leading the market at 61% two days ago.

All-league team chances

The All-NBA and All-Defensive teams are difficult to parse since there is overlap between the possible teams, whereas individual awards only yield one winner and a field of losers.

At the time of writing, these are the players and probabilities for the All-NBA and All-Defensive teams:

All-NBA First Team

• Nikola Jokic - 99%
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - 99%
• Victor Wembanyama - 99%
• Jaylen Brown - 94%
• Luka Doncic - 70%

All-NBA Second Team

• Jalen Brunson - 96%
• Jalen Johnson - 87%
• Kawhi Leonard - 87%
• Donovan Mitchell - 82%
• Kevin Durant - 71%

All-NBA Third Team

• Tyrese Maxey - 68%
• Karl-Anthony Towns - 67%
• Jalen Duren - 51%
• Stephon Castle - 16%
• Alperen Sengun - 15%

All-Defensive First Team

• Victor Wembanyama - 99%
• Chet Holmgren - 96%
• Ausar Thompson - 76%
• Rudy Gobert - 66%
• Scottie Barnes - 66%

All-Defensive Second Team

• Derrick White - 58%
• Bam Adebayo - 42%
• Dyson Daniels - 39%
• OG Anunoby - 26%
• Donovan Clingan/Evan Mobley - 20%

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The cruelness of social media knows no bounds, so when the Pacers posted a photo of Tyrese Haliburton on Friday night seemingly everyone was there to make jokes about his weight.

Tyrese Haliburton fit check 👀 pic.twitter.com/Gq1cPaMseh

— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) April 11, 2026

From Nutty Professor jokes, to quips about how he had been “eating good,” there was no shortage of people noticing that Haliburton bulked up while being sidelined with the ruptured achilles that took the Pacers’ point guard of Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals, and has kept him from playing this entire season.

Haliburton revealed on Monday why he’s gained weight, and it’s a lesson in why you shouldn’t get Twitter fingers too quickly and blast someone without knowing the whole story.

#Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton “lost part my eyebrow” due to face shingles:

“I’ve been taking unbelievable amounts of medication to try to get rid of it. It hasn’t worked. It’s obviously caused me to gain weight … That’s been a topic of conversation through social media …” pic.twitter.com/nRSpgnzjm6

— James Boyd (@RomeovilleKid) April 13, 2026

Shingles is a ludicrously painful illness caused by a reactivation of the dormant chickenpox virus. It leads to incredibly painful rashes, complete with blisters. Shingles which appear on the face are considered to be both the most serious, and the most painful due to the amount of facial nerves which are affected.

The best treatment is to receive the shingles vaccine, but if that is not possible, a regimen of antiviral medications is often prescribed, as is corticosteroid therapy. These topical steroids are designed to reduce inflammation, but can also cause swelling. As for why he lost part of his eyebrow, that could be caused due to the rashes and blistering.

Here’s hoping Tyrese feels better soon, because this is an awful.

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Adam Silver has gotten two things undeniably right during his tenure as commissioner — calling out Donald Sterling for his racism and introducing the Play-In Tournament.

This week’s six-game slate has been pure entertainment, even if fans of the Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns might describe tonight as nothing short of agony.

My Trail Blazers vs. Suns predictions and NBA picks bet on one of the NBA’s most irrationally confident players on April 14.

Trail Blazers vs Suns prediction

Who will win Trail Blazers vs Suns?

Suns: Personally, I expect Phoenix to win this game by multiple buckets, but suppose it comes down to the final minute. Who are you going to side with, the team leaning on Scoot Henderson initiating an offense to feature either Jrue Holiday or Deni Adija for a needed bucket or the team with Devin Booker?

Trail Blazers vs Suns best bet: Dillon Brooks Over 19.5 points (+102)

Kevin Durant was right. His worst year is better than Dillon Brooks’s best year, but that does not mean the Phoenix Suns’ biggest acquisition for trading away Durant is going to shy away from this moment. Frankly, Dillon Brooks’s delusional confidence is his most redeeming trait, though also and obviously his most infuriating one.

The Portland Trail Blazers should devote Jrue Holiday to slowing Devin Booker as much as possible. That will move the ball into Brooks’s hands more often.

Phoenix needs either Brooks or Jalen Green to complement Booker to pull off this upset and avoid the Oklahoma City Thunder. Portland is more likely to let Brooks get an advantage than Green.

That is to effectively say, betting on Phoenix’s third option is both the best bet and the Suns’ best approach to winning this game.

In a few respects, the greatest concern with Brooks may be foul trouble. And if Phoenix advances, Brooks’s worst habit will undoubtedly rear its ugly head, but that usually comes once well into a series, as tensions run highest. A one-game format lessens that concern.

Trail Blazers vs Suns same-game parlay

Devin Booker is too pure a scorer not to pour in some buckets in a game of this import, hence Portland presumably needing to devote Jrue Holiday to the Suns’ franchise cornerstone. And that is part of why Brooks should score, though partly at Green’s expense. In a very real way, every leg of this one-sided same-game parlay is correlated.

Trail Blazers vs Suns SGP

• Dillon Brooks Over 19.5 points
• Jalen Green Under 18.5 points
• Devin Booker Over 26.5 points

Our "from downtown" SGP: Suns don't set

To put this simply, if the Suns’ point distribution breaks down like this, then Phoenix is in a great position to win this Play-In game with ease. Adding the -4 to this same-game parlay should not raise it 73%.

This is what makes the Suns just dangerous enough. They may be devoid of stars aside from Booker, a year after having too many stars to function, but Phoenix still has an array of backcourt scoring to worry just about anybody in the NBA, particularly for one game.

Trail Blazers vs Suns SGP

• Dillon Brooks Over 19.5 points
• Jalen Green Under 18.5 points
• Devin Booker Over 26.5 points
• Suns -4

Trail Blazers vs Suns odds

• Spread: Trail Blazers +4 | Suns -4
• Moneyline: Trail Blazers +145 | Suns -170
• Over/Under: Over 218 | Under 218

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The Lakers got a taste of a playoff atmosphere against the Houston Rockets only a month ago. They can recreate the moment again, this time with real postseason stakes, but the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference will be missing a key component from those thrilling wins.

Luka Doncic, still getting specialized treatment in Europe for his Grade 2 left hamstring strain, is a long shot to return during the first round of the playoffs, which begin Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at Crypto.com Arena.

Between Doncic and Austin Reaves, who is out with a Grade 2 left oblique strain, the Lakers have lost their two leading scorers and an average of 56.8 points per game. They lost the No. 3 seed. But by finishing the season with three consecutive wins to maintain home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, they haven’t lost their fight.

Read more:Lakers beat Jazz in finale, will host play-in game against Timberwolves

They'll need it against the Rockets.

“The playoffs, to me, are all about resiliency,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said. “... You're playing one opponent in the playoffs and there's a bunch of things that are gonna happen, some good, some bad. You may get down in a series. You may get down in the game, you may get down in the game on the road. And just, you have to play with resiliency.”

Here’s how the teams match up:

Key team stats

Lakers

Record: 53-29

Offensive rating (OFF RTG): 117.0 (10th)

Defensive rating (DEF RTG):115.5 (20th)

Net Rating (NET RTG)*: 1.5 (14th)

Rockets

Record: 52-30

Offensive Rating (OFF RTG): 117.5 (8th)

Defensive Rating (DEF RTG): 112.1 (6th)

Net Rating (NET RTG)*: 5.4 (6th)

(*Net rating subtracts defensive rating from offensive rating for a projected margin of victory.)

Players to watch

Lakers

LeBron James: 20.9 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 7.2 apg, 51.5 fg%/31.7 3-pt. fg%/73.7 ft%

Deandre Ayton: 12.5 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1 bpg, 67 fg%/64.5% ft%

Marcus Smart: 9.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.0 apg, 39.5 fg%/33.1 3-pt. fg%/82.2 ft%

Rockets

Kevin Durant: 26 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 4.8 apg, 52 fg%/41.3 3-pt. fg%/87.4 ft%

Alperen Sengun: 20.4 ppg, 8.9 rpg, 6.2 bpg, 51.9 fg%/30.5 3-pt. fg%/69.1 ft%

Amen Thompson: 18.3 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 5.3 apg, 53.4 fg%/77.9 ft%

How the Lakers fared

Season Series: 2-1

Dec. 25, 2025, in Los Angeles

Rockets 119, Lakers 96

The Rockets looked like a championship-contending team early in the season behind the generational rebounding force of Sengun and Steven Adams. They bullied the Lakers in a nationally televised, Christmas Day showcase, and to add injury to insult, Reaves re-aggravated a calf injury that kept him out for six weeks.

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March 16, in Houston

Lakers 100, Rockets 92

Part of their season-long nine-game winning streak, the Lakers came back from a 10-point third-quarter deficit behind 36 points, six rebounds and four assists from Doncic. The Rockets committed 24 turnovers, a season-high for a Lakers opponent, including seven turnovers from Durant. The Rockets were without Sengun, who missed the game with low back pain.

March 18, in Houston

Lakers 124, Rockets 116

Doncic and James combined for 70 points to lead the Lakers to their seventh consecutive win. Doncic scored 40 with 10 assists and nine rebounds while James was 13 for 14 from the field, including an alley-oop dunk from Doncic with 1:22 remaining that contributed to a 13-2 Lakers run that put the game away. While the Lakers were one of the league’s best in clutch time — going 22-8 in games within five points in the last five minutes — the Rockets were 16th with a 22-23 clutch time record.

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“They say they want you successful, but then they make it stressful, you start keeping pace, they start switching up the tempo.”

– Mos Def

Can’t print the name of the song. Realistically, the comparison is arguably offensive. The Mighty Mos Def is talking about racial inequality in America. This article is going to be about the NBA’s draft pick economy. Dear reader, just know that the quote comes from a place of unadulterated reverence.

Adam Silver’s tenure as a commissioner has been…busy. By now, one could describe him as a busybody. The NBA is like a single-celled organism in a petri dish. There are two scientists in the room. One thinks they’ve introduced enough conditions, and ought to see how it grows organically. Silver is the other, and he wants to add more:

And more, and more, and more.

He won’t stop until the NBA is perfect. Problematically, the NBA will never be perfect. Silver seems unfamiliar with the law of unintended consequences.

For example, he flattened the lottery odds to discourage tanking. So, more teams started tanking. If they didn’t land “their guy”, they tanked for longer. Flattening the odds made tanking a bigger problem, so naturally, Silver is set to flatten them even more.

The Houston Rockets are major stakeholders.

Rockets could be impacted by new lottery odds

Specifically, the new proposal would expand the lottery to 18 teams. Without knowing what the new odds would specifically look like, that might be a wash for the Rockets.

In the 2027 Draft, the Rockets have swap rights with the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets are not necessarily on pace to escape the lottery, so if the rules are implemented this summer, that pick depreciates. That said, they also own the Suns’ pick with no protections. Phoenix is likely to land just inside that bottom 18 mark, so the Rockets may have lottery odds on that pick that they weren’t expecting.

In 2029, the Rockets own the best of their own, Phoenix, and Dallas’ picks. It’s difficult to project so far out. In a vacuum, flatter odds should capture more lottery potential here, but a Phoenix implosion would suddenly be less beneficial for Houston than it would have been before.

So, it’s hard to say how this would impact the Rockets. It could help, and it could hinder.

That’s not entirely the point here.

Rockets acquired picks under certain conditions

I’ll be frank: This boils my blood.

The NBA is a multilayered competition. There’s competition at the immediate, on-court level, but there’s competition between boardrooms as well. Imagine the league eliminates the corner three: How is that fair to teams that built their offense around generating corner threes?

So what’s the difference? Silver is trying to enhance competition, but he’s going directly against the league’s competitive spirit in the process.

These acquisitions were made with certain rules in mind. If the league wants to implement change, it should take hold starting in 2032, when no team owns another team’s picks yet.

That won’t happen. Tanking is apparently a catastrophic emergency that needs to be fixed immediately. It feels like a strange stance from a man who recently described basketball as a “highlight sport”. If I were a betting man…

I’d bet that sports betting has something to do with it.

Anyone who’s cheered for a tanking team is likely to disagree. It wasn’t so bad, was it? Speaking personally, I’ve preferred the experience of watching these young guys grow over, say, the Louis Scola / Kevin Martin years. Perpetual mediocrity is the real basement for the NBA fan experience, and you’ll see a lot more Chicago Bulls team building with these rules.

Is that what Silver wants? He wants three contenders, and 27 teams with no chance to win, and minimal avenues to improve? If so, he’s on his way:

Even if it means changing the rules of a game that’s still ongoing.

The most anticipated yet anticlimactic Knick regular season in years concluded its preamble with a 110-96 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, though it didn’t feel like an L. Both teams got what they wanted: New York rested their starting five and Mitchell Robinson (somewhere in Connecticut, a worried friend injects thorazine into the red, raging Tom Thibodeau); the Hornets earned the right to host their Play-In game against the Heat. Before nostalgia became commodity, it was once a pretty sweet fruit. I’m old enough to look back on and look forward to raucous Carolina playoff crowds. If Charlotte makes it to the playoffs, they’ll face Detroit. Please make it, Charlotte.

11 Knicks suited up, with 10 playing between 12 and 35 minutes, led by Mo Diawara; ironically, iron man Mikal Bridges played just 23 seconds, long enough to extend his consecutive games streak for yet another year. There’ll be a whole heaping host of playoff previews and player retrospectives the next few months, but before we all go into playoff mode, a few reflections on the 2025-26 Knicks season.

• Jalen Brunson led the team in scoring at 26 per game. This was his third straight year scoring at least that many while being named an All-Star, the first Knick ever to do so. Patrick Ewing, Carmelo Anthony and Bernard King did so two years in a row, and Richie Guerin once. Bob McAdoo did twice, technically, with one in his split season between Buffalo and New York.
• Brunson averaged six more points a game than Karl-Anthony Towns. The last time the Knicks had a gap that large between their leading scorers was 2021, when Julius Randle scored 6.5 more than RJ Barrett.
• Despite a career-low in minutes per game and the fewest field goals made and attempted averages since his rookie year, KAT had a career-best year on the glass, leading the league in defensive rebounds while finishing seventh on the offensive boards.
• Another encouraging number from Towns: seven. As in seven games missed this year, 17 total since becoming a Knick. The five years prior in Minnesota, he missed 29, 22, 8, 53 and 20. KAT is one of God’s creatures, equal parts ineffable and effed up. One day when you’re looking back, much older than now, and the world is smaller and crueler and hotter, and the number of people who remember you keeps plummeting, the number who care even less, you will remember these as the good times. You will. Because the Knicks were a welcome distraction. One big reason why: Towns, simply showing up. Lotta good in life comes down to that.
• The Knicks managed to be more available while being less available this season. In 2025 nine Knicks played 500+ minutes; this year, Ariel Hukporti was two minutes away from making it a dozen. And while more Knicks played more, the more essential ‘bockers all played less: KAT played 195 fewer minutes, Mikal Bridges 344, OG Anunoby 482 and Josh Hart 903. Brunson played more total minutes because he played nine more games then last year; if he’d played the same number of games, he’d have played 30 less total minutes. Hopefully them legs pay off come playoff time.
• I always loved baseball players who would keep changing up their batting stance or delivery. Josh Hart is that kind of baseball player, a Cal Ripken Jr., a David Cone. Every year Hart does something pretty radically different, almost always for the better. In 2025 he shot 10% better from the field than he did in 2024 while dishing 45% more assists per game. This year he’s scoring like he hasn’t since his split 2022 season with the Pelicans and Trail Blazers. Per 36 minutes, he’s taking and making 40% more 3s than he did last season, all while going from the league leader in minutes last year to 54th this year. Hart remains the league leader among Joshes, comfortably ahead of both Okogie (197th) and Green (210th).
• You’re probably aware OG had more than 100 dunks and 100 3s, which is really cool. Can you guess who the Knick top-five in dunks were? By which I mean “Can you without looking it up?” You, the person reading this. You’re a miracle. Use your imagination. Googling is like masturbation: it has a time and a place, but don’t make it a crutch. I’ll confirm/reveal the answer in the comments. Don’t get any ideas.
• Bridges attempted 98 free throws this year. How rare is it for a starter to take fewer than 100 in a season? I went back over the past decade and could only find five. Four played far fewer minutes than Bridges, and would’ve broken the century mark if they’d played as often: Quentin Grimes, Damyean Dotson, Jarrett Jack and Courtney Lee. Essentially, there is only one Knick in the last 10 years who drew the whistle as rarely as Mikal.

• The Knicks finished 53-29, their third straight season of 50+ wins. Don’t sleep on that! Pat Riley won that many all four years he coached in New York. In the 27 seasons between Riley and Brunson, the Knicks did only three times. In the 18 seasons between their last title and the arrival of Ewing, they did twice. The NBA started playing 80 games in 1961-62 before settling on 82. In the dozen seasons from 1962 to 1973, the last Knick title, they won 50+ four times. To sum it all up: this franchise wins this many games a quarter of the time. So three straight times? Told you: these are the good times.

DollarBill24: “ I can already hear the ‘F*** Trae Young’ chants.” I never once liked those chants before, but if they break out in this series I am going to die laughing. Knicks got a week to rest and prepare for their series against Atlanta. There’ll be plenty of roundtables, previews and pods between now and then, so for a couple days let yourself marinate in the mellow.

The Toronto Raptors might look like one of the worst matchups for the Cleveland Cavaliers based on the sweep they conducted, but there are a lot of asterisks at play.

For one, the starting lineups they used in those games aren’t exactly the ones we’ll be seeing when the series starts next week.

#Cavs starting lineups in their matchups vs. TOR
Oct. 31 – Evan Mobley, De'Andre Hunter, Dean Wade, Jaylon Tyson & Lonzo Ball
Nov. 13 – Donovan Mitchell, Sam Merill, Hunter, Mobley & Jarrett Allen (5th game in 7 nights)
Nov. 24 – Mitchell, Ball, Tyson, Mobley & Larry Nance Jr.

— Danny Cunningham (@RealDCunningham) April 13, 2026

The main talking point is that the Cavaliers were sending out makeshift lineups against Toronto. However, something that is not attached to this sentiment, as far as I have seen, is that this was going to be brought up no matter who Cleveland’s first-round opponent was.

The Cavaliers have donned 41 unique lineups in 82 games this season. These changes weren’t inspired by testing out different methodology. The Cavaliers have been snake bitten by the injury bug for the entirety of the regular season. Even on the opening tip in October, they started the season without Darius Garland and Max Strus.

The wave of injuries continued throughout the whole season. Mitchell is the Cavaliers’ so-called “iron man” with 70 games played. The fluctuation has impacted this roster from top to bottom.

The greater point is less about the Cavaliers against the Raptors individually as there is no basis to go off of, and more so how that the Cavaliers are arguably the biggest question mark of any team in the postseason.

It is hard to figure out what a fully healthy version of the Cavaliers looks like. Especially one that has undergone the personnel changes the Cavaliers did at the deadline. Whether it’s swapping James Harden in for Garland, Dennis Schroeder and Keon Ellis for Lonzo Ball and De’Andre Hunter, or even Jaylon Tyson or Max Strus at the three, the Cavaliers have a ton of open-ended questions that were never cemented in certainty.

The postseason is usually when a team commits to what has worked and sticks true to this identity made over 82 games. The Cavs don’t have that luxury.

The Cavaliers had just two five-man lineups that played at least 80 minutes together. One of them involves two players not currently with the team. Even the most used lineup isn’t available for the playoffs.

It makes the Cavaliers a blank canvas, unlike anything we’ve seen in recent years. Usually, it is that a team is hampered by injuries by the time the postseason rolls around. Look at the Lakers, they are starting a series possibly without two of their best three players on the team in Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. The Cavaliers are actually at their healthiest at the most optimal time; we just don’t know how good they can be.

We’ll soon find out whether they can reach their ceiling as title contenders or if their lack of continuity will cause them to falter.

Daryl Morey and the rest of the Philadelphia front office are going to have challenges in upcoming summers. Thanks to the term left on the max contracts to Joel Embiid and Paul George, constructing future rosters will prove difficult. Perhaps there’s a world in which Morey can get off of George’s deal as the wing has shown signs of life since returning from his suspension and his contract has two years remaining on it compared to Embiid’s three.

But as the Sixers prepare to participate in the NBA’s play-in tournament for the second time in three seasons, we are yet again preparing for another postseason, should Philly get out of the play-in tournament, without Embiid for at least part of it. If we’re being completely honest, it’s probably going to be all of the postseason. Who in their right mind is going to pick them to beat Boston in the first round if they get a victory on Wednesday night against Orlando?

However, the 2025-26 Philadelphia 76ers season was never one that anyone expected to come with a deep playoff run. Fans were either checked out after an abysmal 2024-25 or ready to turn the page and see how quickly VJ Edgecombe could adapt to life in the NBA and what kind of backcourt tandem he could make with Tyrese Maxey. At best, it felt like fans were in wait-and-see mode as Embiid and George returned from respective knee procedures.

During the regular season, Embiid showed signs of his old self, particularly offensively. But unfortunately, it was only glimpses of the player he once was and he only played in 38 games. Despite the fact that Embiid is likely to be a Sixer for each of the next three seasons, this season was always a transitional one for the franchise. It was more about what kind of future the franchise could carve out for itself rather than doing all it could to make one last run with Embiid.

It is for that very reason that while Embiid’s recent appendicitis diagnosis is a tough blow for a future Hall of Famer who can never seem to catch a break, that the franchise could benefit from whatever the rest of April brings. Without Embiid, the organization will potentially get a look at how close they are to Boston, the franchise that seemingly everyone in the East has been competing to dethrone for the majority of the 2020s. Should the Sixers indeed square off with the Celtics in the first round, that series should give Morey the ability to make some more informed decisions about the team heading into the offseason. However cold this may sound, the reality is that all of those decisions about future roster construction should be made without Embiid being considered at all.

Anything Embiid contributes for the remaining three years on his contract should be viewed as a bonus. Frankly, anything the Sixers do in the playoffs should be viewed as a bonus as well. This season was always about figuring out what the franchise’s future is and how it can build a contender around players that aren’t Joel Embiid. Would a win against Orlando and then a six or seven-game series loss to Boston have Morey feeling more optimistic about a roster built around Maxey and Edgecombe? Of course, building that roster will require Morey to be creative due to the presence of Embiid and George’s hefty salaries for the next few seasons.

But we can all probably safely assume Embiid will play less than 50 regular season games a year for the rest of his career, so it just makes sense to continue to make decisions as if Embiid wasn’t around anymore. Perhaps a strong offseason from Morey maximizes Maxey and Edgecombe next season and Philly has a top four seed in the 2027 NBA Playoffs. Let’s not forget all the years the Sixers were dysfunctional around Embiid and Embiid was practically the sole reason they were a top four seed in the East. If there’s a world in which the Sixers can get back to that point with Embiid being used in a much lesser role, I’d say they’d finally be returning the favor for their former MVP.

Where Steph Curry ranks among all players in jersey sales for 2025-26 NBA season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Once again, Steph Curry has the most popular jersey in the entire NBA.

According to the league, Curry’s jersey was the top seller for the 2025-26 regular season based on sales from the NBA Store and Fanatics. Luka Dončić of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, Victor Wembenyama of the San Antonio Spurs and LeBron James of the Lakers rounded out the top five, respectively.

It’s the sixth time the Warriors star has led all players in jersey sales; Curry last ranked No. 1 in 2023-24 before falling all the way down to No. 2 behind Dončić last season.

The NBA's top-selling jerseys list for the 2025-26 regular season… based on sales from https://t.co/I0ypSvyq5i, https://t.co/tYEBPOnXdC and Fanatics partner sites! pic.twitter.com/8nQfnD8T0z

— NBA (@NBA) April 13, 2026

Curry’s reign atop the NBA’s jersey sales rankings is especially impressive given he’s never played for another organization in his 17-year pro career. Furthermore, Curry missed almost half of the 2025-26 season due to injury yet remained as popular as ever among fans.

As a team, the Warriors remained among the top-selling organizations in merchandise sales, coming in at No. 4 this season behind the Knicks, Lakers and Boston Celtics. Golden State ranked third in the NBA each of the previous two years.

The NBA's top-selling team merchandise list for the 2025-26 regular season… based on sales from https://t.co/I0ypSvyq5i, https://t.co/tYEBPOnXdC and Fanatics partner sites! pic.twitter.com/NvLC6GV8Mq

— NBA (@NBA) April 13, 2026

So even in a down year for Curry and the Warriors, still expect to see plenty of people repping them going forward.

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