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Chet Holmgren has never finished worse than the #1 seed in his entire basketball career

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the first team to be a #1 seed for 3 consecutive seasons since the Warriors from 2014-15 to 2016-17

[Haliburton] Played 5 on 5 today for first time since June🙏🏽🙏🏽

The Denver Nuggets just completed their first 10 game winstreak in the Jokic era.

[Highlight] Anthony Davis says he felt a bit disrespected after the Lakers traded him for Luka: “I was there 6 years, we won a championship and I can’t even get a phone call or a text to tell me this is what you’re thinking?”

[Highlight] OKC completes the circus sequence with a Jalen Williams layup

Anthony Davis says he was pissed off that the Pelicans didn’t give him a tribute video: “I was f*cking hot I ended up scoring 42. I was open to returning to New Orleans later but after no tribute that door is closed.”

Zaccharie Risacher first DNP of his career comes on his 21st bday

Derrick White on the Hoops Tonight podcast talking about Joe Mazzulla: “One time I got sick and he was looking at me differently because I let myself get sick”

The Thunder have become the 7th wire to wire 1 seed in post-merger NBA history

[Highlight] CADE IS BACK Throws down the lob with force!

[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (63-16) defeat the Los Angeles Clippers (41-38), 128-110 to secure the #1 seed in the Western Conference!

[Charania] The anti-tanking proposal with the most momentum within the Board of Governors leading up to the May 28th vote would expand the lottery to 18 teams — including Play-In teams — with the bottom 10 each getting equal odds and all 18 draft positions determined by lottery.

With Jokic’s 34th triple double tonight, he has as many as the 2nd-4th players combined

Chet Holmgren in the win: 30/14/5 with 2 steals, 4 blocks on ¹⁰⁄₁₃ FG

Chet Holmgren at halftime 24/8/1/2/2 in 15 minutes on 8-10 FG

[Highlight] SGA snatches the pass to Kawhi and goes to coast to coast

Seed Clinched After Today

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needs 180 points against the Clippers to win the 2025-26 NBA Scoring Title

SGA ends his season shooting 55.4% on 2 pointers outside of 10 feet

Clippers went 35-17 after Ty Lue said his goal for the Clippers was to go on a 35-20 run or better to finish the season. They were 6-21.

What are your ACTUAL nba hot takes?

I am sick of push-offs that send defenders flying being presented like ankle breakers as highlights

[Highlight] Khaman Maluach blocks former teammate Cooper Flagg at the rim!

Anthony Davis on winning the bubble ring: “To this day I think about that. Like did I really win a championship? You hear the noise. To me it’s probably the hardest championship to ever accomplish. I know I’m a champion but I want the real experience. It motivates me to have that opportunity again.”

[Charania] The NBA is looking into what multiple sources say was a strategy mistake by Kings coach Doug Christie on an intentional foul of Seth Curry while leading the Warriors with over 3 minutes left in Tuesday’s game

[Highlight] Chet Holmgren intercepts the pass, then throws down the dunk

Carter Bryant in the win: 17/5/4 on 94% TS

Dylan Harper is having one of the most efficient scoring second halves of a rookie season of all time

[Highlight] The 2026 National Champions, UCLA Women’s Basketball, getting honored at Intuit Dome tonight 🏆

[Amick] The Boston Celtics have interest in acquiring Giannis Antetokounmpo.

[Highlight] Ausar Thompson gets the huge block and acts disgusted in Ryan Rollins for even attempting it.

[Highlight] Chet Holmgren gets the block, hits the triple at the other end

[Highlight] Aaron Gordon is called for the foul and argues with the ref, insisting it was a moving screen.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s most likely done for the night keeping his streak alive: 20 PTS, 11 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK

[Goodwill] Cade Cunningham is expected to make his return this evening for the Detroit Pistons after missing time with an injured lung, sources tell ESPN

[Post Game Thread] The San Antonio Spurs (61-19) defeat the Portland Trail Blazers (40-40), 112-101.

[Highlight] Chet Holmgren swats John Collins, talks a little trash

[Post Game Thread] The Detroit Pistons (58-22) defeat the Milwaukee Bucks (31-48), 137-111 in Cade’s return from injury

[Injury] Developing story: Aaron Gordon suffers an injury late in the 2nd quarter.

[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hits the 3-pointer to extend his streak to 140 straight games of 20+ points.

The Timberwolves will be the 6th seed in the Western Conference

Funny exchange between Amen Thompson and Alperen Sengun - when Sengun is posting up and Amen is in the dunker spot, Amen tells his defender “go help, go help, he’s [Sengun] going to score - if he scores once, they listen - then he goes next time and I get a free dunk”

[Post Game Thread] The Denver Nuggets (52-28) defeat the Memphis Grizzlies (25-55), 136-119.

Kawhi is averaging 28ppg on nearly 50/40/90 shooting splits. What All-NBA team do you have him on?

Going into Jordan’s final game as a Wizard, he needed to score at least 15 points to ensure he finished with 20.0 ppg for the season, and have a career where he never averaged less than 20ppg in any given season. He ended up playing 28 minutes, shooting ⁶⁄₁₅, and scoring exactly 15 points.

AD discusses finding out about the trade from Rich Paul: “man shut up, who they gonna trade me for, Luka? Then Nico called and said I told you I was gonna come get you. Then Joel Embiid called me”

[Highlight] KD had words for Dillon Brooks before he sent him stumbling.