2026 NBA Draft: ChatGPT and Claude Totally Don't Get Basketball
In this all-trade top-15 NBA mock draft, generative AI poops the bed.
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[6BS] Former Hoosier OG Anunoby Hits Game Winner In Finals, Wins NBA Championship
Former IU Player Becomes Second Basketball Alumni From School To Win Multiple NBA Titles
Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall, and presented by our friends at Homefield Apparel, where we highlight the five most essential IU basketball stories of the past week, plus take a look at how the other IU sports programs are doing.
Alimo Studio Notes #60 | Knicks NBA Finals, website updates, reach out to clients
NBA Basketball Finals has been electric here in NYC + some low key admin side for this week.
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Blood on the Basketball: The NBA Must End Its Deal With the UAE as the Sudan Genocide Worsens
The UAE has been accused of supporting the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, which has committed some of the worst atrocities in Sudan's three-year civil war.
As the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals get underway, the league faces several vexing problems, including how to stop teams from tanking and players from betting. These issues pale in compar…
Protect the Vote
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Jun 2
Thanks for this heightened awareness of what the commercial NBA is supporting genocide. There needs to be more of this and both women's and men's professional basketball players need to be made aware and use their potent platforms to voice their dissent of being used to promote the UAE's complicity in genocide
Sarah Olson
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Jun 2
Greed and money seem to matter more to many than human lives and human dignity. My heart continues to ache for the Sudanese people.
2026 Dynasty Basketball Rookie Rankings 5.0 (June 2026)
Dizzle Dynasty drops their fifth and final pre-draft dynasty basketball rookie rankings as we approach the 2026 NBA Draft.
The Dizzle Dynasty 2026 NBA Draft output just keeps flowing and flowing. We’ve released dozens of articles, scouting reports and more over the last 8+ months. We’ve learned a lot about the players in this class unlike any class we’ve ever covered and we hope everyone has been enjoying what we’ve been creating.
The NBA Wants Europe. Does Europe Need the NBA?
The NBA is coming for European basketball. A player’s attempt to understand both sides, and whether Europe actually needs it.
The Rabbit Hole
Add some extra complications like different tax systems across the continent, unsustainable ownership models across different teams (where one guy pours money, or a country, or one big sponsor), overall lack of responsible finance planning (examples of AEK, Monaco, etc) and you get a very complicated landscape.
Additionally, for example Serbian teams or even Greek teams are great for the league, its entertaining to watch, but because of economic power of the country, tv deal value there is extremely low. Yes, they compensate this with social media activites and so on, but this time of benefit it is harder to quantify.
Add, countries like France or Germany where basketball is still very niche product and falls far behind football/soccer. Or the fact that most clubs do not own their arenas so they can not claim most of the matchday revenue. Challenges with local championship and scheduling issues - in Spain they play very good teams week in and out, in Lithuania Zalgiris is on 33 win in a row series.
In addition, add FIBA messing with national team windows, or creating their own competition with unfair incentives (money for participation and so on, clubs leave BCL as soon as these incentives expire), players playing 80-90 games a season, coaches who want you to practice.
My point is that this is entirely different beast than NBA. I think before NBA comes into play, European basketball needs to decide what they want and be unanimous in this. We can not have teams like Real Madrid holding out til last second to sign Euroleague deal, or teams voting against each other because of the political/rivalry/history things. Hopefully, this can be sorted
Randomly saw this on LinkedIn. Great stuff Elijah!
Full-Court Press
“Basketball belongs to the cities,” wrote Pete Axthelm in 1970, after the Knicks won their first NBA championship.
Stubbornly soft
The contrast of unfurling spring with the closing intensification of NBA playoff basketball.
The tenderest I feel about people in this city is in the rain.
Your writing is utterly magical. I’m sorry you had to go through that horror but to describe the way agency was handed back to you was just so tender and warm and made me think of how I hope I can always be there in that way for my friends. I don’t know how you trained to write or think like this but it is beautiful.
Great, vivid, and powerful piece, Katie. Like Varsha, I'm so sorry about the horror you went through, but I'm so glad that Meli was there. She sounds like an amazing person, a gem. Someone our world needs more of.
Your article reminds me of how softness is strength. Compassion and kindness are strengths too and they, along with softness, bring beauty to our world.
I like how you show the contrast between the intensity of playoff basketball and the softness of the season.
"The barreling focus, the sharp intention, locked in at the end a season as another unfolds feathery, pliable, gutters flooded with lilac and crabapple blossoms that choke the sewers, wrecking the whole system in their deluge of softness." This is so beautifully said. I love the imagery. Softness is wonderful and brings so much light.
Sending you my support, Katie. All the very best. Your writing is invaluable and wonderful and you have a good and empathetic heart.
🏀 Asia-Pacific's young basketball talents ready to compete on NBA Stars Invitational 2026
Elite court mentorship: How Rui Hachimura, Mitch Richmond, and Jeremy Lin are inspiring the next generation of professional talent
Knicks superstar Jalen Brunson just led New York to an NBA title—and says his basketball legend dad got him ready for the moment | Fortune
15 Jun 2026 15:20 UTC - by Emma Burleigh
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The New York Knicks are NBA champions again. It took 53 years to get back to basketball glory.
The New York Knicks are NBA champions again. It took 53 years to get back to basketball glory.
This day in basketball history: The most dramatic NBA playoff game ever.
On June 5, 1976, the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns played Game 5 of the NBA playoff finals. Their series was tied at two games each.
I remember exactly where I was: going to a HS graduation party with some buddies. We stayed in the car to listen to the final minutes. Satisfied that the Celtics had the game in the bag, we left for the party. Two hours later, we left and got in the car, turned on the radio, and there was Johnny Most calling the game. Highlights? No - it was second overtime!
Enjoyed this. Paul, what do you think of these two teams in the Finals now?
These 11 NBA Players All Have Million Dollar Basketball Card(s)
From Joker to Jordan, these NBA legends all have at least one million dollar basketball cards, plus a few honorable mentions that are long overdue to hit the $1M Mark
Last year this list only had 8 players on it, but in less than six months this list has grown to 11. Who knows how big this list will be by the end of the year.
Rick Adelman Was My Basketball Coach For Two Weeks Every Summer
My personal remembrance of the legendary NBA coach from attending his basketball camp in the 1990s.
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The 2026 NBA Finals: A Millennial Wanders into Basketball and Accidentally Has a Great Time
I need to confess something before the basketball purists come for me. I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be, a devoted follower of the NBA. Yet here I am, fully invested in the 2026 NBA Finals, watching the New York Knicks take a 3–1 lead over the San Antonio Spurs and wondering who I have become. Maybe it is the millennial in me, but every time the …
loved this and your perspective!! can’t wait for game 5
How (and why) to care about the NBA finals when you know nothing about basketball
Vibes, lore, and more for the new fans - guest-edited by a lifer
I was born and raised in Manhattan, but I didn’t grow up in a “basketball family.” My husband was also born and raised in Manhattan—and he did. His mom went to UConn, he grew up playing, and, for his entire life, he’s been a die-hard Knicks fan. From 1999 until this year, I might have squeezed “long-suffering” in before “die-hard.” But this year, things…
This is awesome. But I think we should remember the wise words of Kobe Bryant - https://x.com/BrunsonMuse/status/2063101048433045704/video/1?s=46
this is a godsend
Why Leads are Blown in Basketball - Unfiltered Overview of Game 4 of the NBA Finals
If you watch basketball, you know that blown leads are more common than people realize or care to admit. If you are curious as to how blowing large leads in crunch time is possible, it comes down to the lack of discipline it took to even build a large lead in the first place.
The New-Look NBA Lottery and What It Means for Dynasty Basketball
What should dynasty basketball leagues and commissioners do in response to the NBA's lottery system changes? James breaks down the changes and some options on how to move forward.
This past week, the NBA officially announced changes to the lottery system that are sure to make some massive waves for the league and the entire world of dynasty basketball. We’ve gotten plenty of buzz about it in recent months as Commissioner Adam Silver has ramped up discussion about tanking, and it’s finally come to a head here.
A follow-up point: We'll be looking to see if any fantasy platform implements an option to use the new lottery rules. Or, really, to implement any sort of innate draft lottery at all.
The Next Face of the NBA?
Bill Russell and Wilt, Kareem, Magic and Larry, Michael, Kobe, LeBron, Steph…
I’d guess that an Emory sample might not be representative here as to Caitlin Clark
Darryn Peterson Scouting Report
A look at the potential #1 overall pick and franchise changer.
The NBA and Black Bodies as a Spectacle: the Commodification of Victor Wembanyama
My mayor is Muslin, my media studies graduate is Jewish...
I have never been one to follow the NBA. In fact, I only discovered that San Antonio, Texas had their own basketball team as recently as April. One night, at my friend’s apartment, a colleague stumbled in, and beat us into submission with his demands to turn on the Spurs game. We complied, as the fate of his $50 DraftKings bet depended on it.
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Big Auntie With a Whistle: How Sha'Rae Mitchell Is Helping Shape the Future of Women's Basketball
The NBA referee, mentor, and WPBA leader is proving that growing the game requires more than great players. It requires people willing to build pathways for others.
Twenty thousand fans may disagree with a call.
'The dumbest stretch of basketball' | Spurs get ripped on national sports media after historic collapse in Game 4 in NBA Finals
The Spurs are the target of many harsh words from national sports media after squandering a 29 point lead to the Knicks in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
By Jeff Garcia, Spurs In Focus
TRUMP ATTENDS NBA FINALS, IMMEDIATELY DEFEATS BASKETBALL
An asshole nearby was heard saying, "What an asshole?"
President Donald Trump attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, becoming the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game. His appearance required extraordinary security measures in and around the arena. Fans encountered enhanced screening procedures and traffic disruptions. During appearances on arena screens,…
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