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The 21-time Emmy Award-winning "Inside the NBA" studio show returns as the pregame, halftime and postgame show for ESPN and ABC's NBA coverage during the 2025-26 season.

The 2025-26 NBA Season tips off tomorrow night with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder taking on Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets in OKC, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers squaring off against the Golden State Warriors in LA.

The NY Knicks will open up the 2025-26 season against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct. 22 at Madison Square Garden.

LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller are the heart and soul of the Charlotte Hornets' rebuild, and while they both have gotten off to impressive starts in their respe

The NBA 2025-26 season opens this week. Here is what to know about opening night for NBA and the Phoenix Suns.

Per NBA tradition, the Thunder will be part of the first game of the 2025-26 regular season. They will host Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets for 2025-26 Opening Night. That's a juicy storyline in itself. But before tip-off, the annual pregame ceremony will occur as OKC will see a championship banner dropped and rings handed out.

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith made a bold declaration regarding who he believes will win the championship this season.

We can "thank" LeBron James and Steph Curry for that avoidable dynamic as they continue their all-time, legendary careers indefinitely well into their 30s (and 40s). Until these two icons walk away, the NBA and its fans will (somewhat justifiably) never give the more modern faces of the league the bigger spotlight they deserve. That's a shame.

The NBA is being hit by an international storm, spanning from all corners of the world. At the start of the 2024-25 season the league announced that a record-tying 125 international players were on opening night rosters.