The NBA season opens Tuesday with a record 135 players born outside the U.S. They come from 43 countries, with 71 players from Europe.

NBA rosters are locked for the 2025-26 season, which opens Tuesday on NBC & Peacock: The Rockets visit the champion Thunder & the Lakers host the Warriors.

Maybe! Those were among the responses The Athletic got this week when it asked its NBA staff for bold predictions for the 2025-26 season. Here’s one prediction for each team as the season tips off: The Hawks finish with a top-10 defense: Atlanta was 19th in defensive efficiency last season and has never finished in the top half of the league in the Trae Young era.

Here is everything you need to know about watching NBA action this season, including the best streaming options for games.

The defending champs always start the season on top of these NBA Power Rankings (unless someone goes full Mark Cuban and blows up a champ for no good reason), but it almost feels like the Thunder should be on their own tier to start this campaign. It’s OKC and everyone else is chasing. Let’s break it all down by tiers.

The 2025-26 NBA season is about to begin but several teams are already being forced to press forward without key players on their respective rosters.

Here is everything you need to know about "Inside the NBA," including how to watch the show during the 2025-26 season.

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.

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

The NBA opens the 2025-26 season Tuesday, and Juszczyk's new fashion collaboration with the league aligns with opening night.

The new NBA season gets under way on Tuesday, 21 October with 30 teams hoping this will be their year. Can you name them all in 10 minutes?

John Karalis: Tom Thibodeau chatting with Jayson Tatum at practice. Jaylen Brown says "him being able to kind of give us some of the thoughts he saw in that series and some of the stuff that they broke down in our personnel, or even our team, helps us grow and learn from that ... It only helps me get better." Bluesky | Oct. 20, 2025