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Brad Botkin

CBS Sports Staff

The Bucks are holding a mountain of Giannis Antetokounmpo debt because they didn't know when to let go

Signing Myles Turner in an effort to keep Giannis was always a fool's errand

NBA Power Rankings: Lakers crack top three, Clippers' season hits new low with Chris Paul move

Elsewhere, the Spurs are surviving just fine without Victor Wembanyama

NBA Hater Report: LaMelo Ball's one-legged bricks look as bad as Joel Embiid's contract

Also, the Warriors can't stop turning the ball over and every Clippers loss is OKC's gain

NBA quarter-season grades for every East team: Knicks, Cavs can improve, Pistons get 'A+' and one team fails

The first-quarter buzzer is sounding on the 2025-26 NBA season, and it's time to hand out some grades

Jimmy Butler has been a star in his role, but 'sad' Warriors need him to be an actual star

Butler sounds like he's losing his joy again as Golden State has struggled to find a groove

NBA Power Rankings: Clippers have become a disaster, Pistons and Raptors on shocking surges

Here's where the NBA stands as we head into Thanksgiving

How Jalen Johnson has supplanted Trae Young as Hawks' franchise player

Johnson has become equally dangerous as both finisher and facilitator

The Warriors are a flawed team and Jonathan Kuminga is neither scapegoat nor solution

Whether Draymond Green's agenda comment was actually aimed at Kuminga is beside the point

Thunder taking early aim at Golden State's 73-win record and there's reason to believe they can get there

There are levels to the NBA's parity era. OKC is on a different one

NBA Power Rankings: Lakers keep rolling in LeBron James' debut; Rockets swap spots with Spurs

Meanwhile, the Pistons and Raptors have combined to win 20 of their last 21

NBA Hater Report: Steph Curry saving the Warriors isn't sustainable; Hawks might be better without Trae Young

Atlanta is 8-2 since Young got hurt thanks to an elite defense

Nikola Jokić might be shooting himself straight into the GOAT conversation

Jokić's shooting numbers this season have blown completely off the charts

NBA Power Rankings: Spurs, Pistons making the leap; Eastern Conference earning its keep

Meanwhile, the Lakers keep cruising along without LeBron James

Nico Harrison was done with the Mavericks the day he traded Luka Dončić; he just didn't know it

Harrison was fired Tuesday, nine months after he shipped his generational superstar to Los Angeles

How Pistons' Cade Cunningham authored one the best worst games in NBA history

Cunningham missed 31 shots but made the ones that counted in Detroit's seventh straight win

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