Jared Dubin

Chris Paul Helped Blake Griffin Shine. Can He Do The Same For Deandre Ayton? What could Chris Paul do for Deandre Ayton?

Which was extremely easy to foresee at the time!

Who among us could have seen this coming?!?

Rough stretch for Ayton. Missed a hook by not going up strong, miscommunicated with Luka on P&R, passed up a 5-footer to spin into Draymond for a charge, missed a fadeaway instead of going up strong.

Marcus Smart is just flinging his body everywhere. Not entirely sure what purpose this serves but he sure is doing it.

You can bet he'll be in my Three Things I Noticed on Opening Night.

That and Homegrum.

So is the late game gonna be available to stream the replay on Peacock tomorrow? Because otherwise how are those of us still watching OKC-HOU ever supposed to see the first quarter?

There have been several "oh so that's why Reed Sheppard didn't play much last year" moments in this one.

One hell of a way to open the season.

If the Thunder win this game then one of the first things we have to talk about is Cason Wallace's defense.

Trying to remember the last time I didn't immediately hit the mute button when a game went to halftime. Really in any sport.

Is Josh Okogie wearing the biggest headband in NBA history? Somebody needs to measure it.

In my head he's wearing it because it's 15 x 2 for his second stint with Houston. I hope that's the reason.

Udoka took that timeout QUICKLY after Chet got wide open in the middle of the zone for the second time.

Three possessions for Houston and three major struggles to even get a shot off. Not necessarily surprising vs the OKC defense.

I'm hoping that's a one-off due to ring night, but we'll have to see, obviously.

Another A+ move.

A+ for the entire pregame presentation from NBC. We are so back.

He needs to bust out the hat collection.

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In my first few minutes watching the pregame show this is already the best pregame show in years.

I will pick that label up and I will wear it as a badge of honor, sir.

I'm assuming it starts late because of ring night fesitivites but the answer to that should really be starting the ring night festivities earlier.

One thing I'm interested in watching tonight that I am probably one of like 12 people that care about it is what time the "7:30" game tips off on NBC. TNT games were usually 7-ish minutes late and ESPN games are like an hour and 72 minutes late.

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2025-26 Predictions Forecasting as much as possible about the forthcoming season

Here are my brief thoughts on the extensions for Kevin Durant, Toumani Camara, and Shaedon Sharpe, plus my annual attempt to predict as much as possible at the NBA season.

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Hovering around 15% of plays for a while now, via Cleaning the Glass.

I don't think that's what holds people back on Sabonis, but re-contextualizing offensive rebounders in general could yield some interesting stuff.

Leaguewide OREB rate topped 25% last year for the first time since 2015. With everyone math-ing their way to offense, possessions become more important, which means OREBs (and TOs) become more important.