John Schuhmann

1 week ago | nba.com | John Schuhmann

• Download the NBA AppVery rarely do in-season trades work as well as the Warriors’ acquisition of Jimmy Butler, which turned a below-.500 team into a possible title contender. Stephen Curry is still an offensive marvel in Year 16, Draymond Green is a Kia Defensive Player of the Year candidate once again and Butler has fit in remarkably well. The Houston Rockets, who’ve gone from 22-60 two seasons ago to 52-30 this year, had an even stronger close to the season than the revamped Warriors.

2 weeks ago | nba.com | John Schuhmann

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >There are just four days left in the 2024-25 season, a historical year in many ways. Here are some numbers that stand out from the last six months …The Thunder, statistically, have been the best team in NBA history. They’ve outscored their opponents by 12.6 points per game, the best differential for any team in this league’s 79 seasons. Best point differential, NBA historyTeamSeasonWLPCTPt. diff.

2 weeks ago | nba.com | John Schuhmann

• Get NBA League Pass TODAY >We’re down to the last week of the season, 57 games over six days (none on Saturday). Here’s what we know …Eastern ConferenceIt’s very likely that the top four seeds will be Cleveland, Boston, New York and Indiana, in that order. But the Cavs, Knicks and Pacers each still need a result or two to go their way to secure their current spot. The Bucks and Pistons are fighting it out for the No. 5 seed, and they’ll face each other twice in the last three days of the season.

3 weeks ago | nba.com | John Schuhmann

• Download the NBA App >Shooting is the most important thing in basketball. There are four factors that go into how well a team plays on either end of the floor, with the other three being free throw rate, turnover rate and rebounding percentage. And by far, the one that correlates most to overall success is effective field goal percentage.

3 weeks ago | nba.com | John Schuhmann

The Oklahoma City Thunder have just 12 losses, 14 fewer than every other team in the Western Conference. They’re a young team, but the Thunder have been so dominant (still holding the best point differential in NBA history) that it would be a huge surprise if they didn’t reach the Western Conference Finals. Who they could face there is anybody’s guess. With two weeks left in the season, six games in the loss column separate the second-place Houston Rockets from the eighth-place LA Clippers.