Saturday’s NBA Cup Semifinals feature some great matchups – and some star players – making it a perfect time to bet on some player props. The Oklahoma City Thun

Target Victor Wembanyama, Jalen Suggs & Chet Holmgren for today's NBA Cup semifinals player prop picks & best bets for Saturday.

Sunday features 8 NBA games sprinkled throughout the day. Can the Pelicans cover the spread as road underdogs on Sunday night? Can the short-handed Suns cover a small number against the Lakers? Will the Blazers cover as home dogs against the Warriors? Read on for our Sunday NBA Best Bets Dec. 14 column.

The Defensive Player of the Year conversation starts and probably ends with Victor Wembanyama. Let's get the obvious out of the way quickly. Ask 100 NBA observers to name the league's best defender and 90 of them probably start with San Antonio's enormous ...

Who can we expect to be the best of the best in the NBA this season? Jalen Brunson, Luka Dončić and Victor Wembanyama figure to be in the conversation. Illustration: Will Tullos / The Athletic; photos: Thearon W. Henderson, Ron Hoskins, Jesse D.

The NBA takes center stage on Tuesday night, as there are a pair of Eastern Conference NBA Cup Quarterfinal matchups on Prime Video. The night kicks off with th

This fall, basketball curmudgeons purists could have a whole new reason to complain about the modern NBA. As 3-point attempts have steadily risen over the past decade (from an average of 22.4 per game in 2014-15 to a record 37.6 last season), so too have ...

Nobody else has dove in on offensive rebounding to the extent the Rockets have, with their massive 38.5 percent offensive rebound rate after an offseason spent adding ever more size to go with their already formidable frontcourt. But in a copycat NBA, this could be the latest Houston-initiated math hack that ends up widely imitated.