Columns, recaps and the week ahead — across the NBA, EuroLeague and every league we cover.
Nine games across WNBA, Puerto Rico's BSN, Turkey's Super Ligi, and Italy's Lega Basket give this week its shape.
Two WNBA nail-biters and a late-season NBA grinder all landed in the same place, the line between control and chaos.
One late push, one clean defensive finish, and a reminder that in June you can’t give away possessions or free throws.
Marcus Okafor on a one-possession classic at the Garden, the steal column that nearly cost San Antonio everything, and the rotation choices Tom Thibodeau finally trusted.
Three days, three competitions, one tidy little weekend. Notes on the Knicks lifting the trophy in San Antonio, the Liberty's free-throw-driven Sunday in Brooklyn, and a Bayamón night where the math should have landed differently in the BSN.
From a rare June NBA spot to WNBA marquee games and European postseason pressure, here are the matchups worth circling this week.
A one-game Sunday slate still gave us a playoff-level finish at Madison Square Garden, with San Antonio closing the door late.
A midweek snapshot from Spain, Italy, and Germany shows how spacing and pressure points are shifting in the postseason.
Your Monday-to-Sunday watchlist across the NBA, WNBA, Super Ligi, Lega Basket, and LNB France.
Valencia detonated a road win in Spain, Brescia won a slower kind of fight in Italy, and the NBA offered a reminder that turnovers travel.
Across ACB, Lega A, and the BBL, May has turned into a referendum on decision-making. The teams that can keep their spacing intact under pressure are still standing.
Oklahoma City turned a close game into a statement finish, riding a free-throw parade, the glass, and a steady diet of stops to close out San Antonio.
Two NBA games headline a wide-lens week that also brings Liberty spotlights, ACB seeding pressure, and a Turkey derby with real bite.
A narrative recap of the key results across the weekend window (2026-05-23 to 2026-05-24), with the NBA setting the tone and Spain, Italy, and Germany doing the detail work.
San Antonio's defense turned the Thunder's spacing into a turnover party, and the Spurs walked away with a statement win.
Knicks take control in Cleveland, and the numbers behind a road win that felt bigger than a single night.
The Knicks squeezed the air out of Cleveland’s offense, turned the Garden into a runway, and pushed the series into its next pressure point.
Olympiacos and Real Madrid carry favourite tags into Friday, but the past week across the ACB, Lega A and BBL has been a reminder that nothing on this continent is ever a coronation.
One NBA series still breathing, four EuroLeague heavyweights touching down in Berlin, and the European domestic playoffs hit their semifinal weekends. The 18-24 May window is light on quantity, heavy on stakes.
Four leagues, four different kinds of leverage, threes in Vitoria-Gasteiz, free throws in Brescia, turnovers in Andorra, and the quiet violence of one NBA blowout.
A one-game slate still gave us one loud message: Cleveland's shot profile and ball security traveled, Detroit couldn't keep up.
San Antonio turned a mid-game squeeze into a full-night rout, winning the possession battle, getting cleaner looks, and never letting Minnesota’s shot diet stabilize.
The Sixers shoot Philly off its feet, the Thunder make a sweep look ordinary, San Antonio answers Wembanyama-Edwards in Minneapolis, and the Italian league spends a Sunday handing out 20-point margins.
Conference semifinal weather across both NBA series, a Wembanyama-Edwards night in San Antonio, and a midweek EuroLeague swing into the Pavelló. The week the bench is asked to win games.
The Knicks detonated from deep in Philadelphia, and Minnesota survived a Spurs surge behind free throws and rebounding.
Detroit's 50% three-point night vs. Cleveland's 22% tells the story.
Weekend results offered the headlines, but the three-point math, free-throw volume, and turnover margins told the sharper story ahead of a busy midweek.
Eight games on Saturday and Sunday close the Liga ACB regular season. Real Madrid lead 26-3 at the top of the table, and the playoff seeding for spots two through eight is still moving.
Eighteen Bundesliga games across the week with Bayern clear at the top and the chase pack at Alba Berlin, Bamberg, and Bonn fighting for second through sixth.
The continental bracket reaches its semifinal stage with Monaco-Olympiacos, Hapoel Tel Aviv-Real Madrid, Zalgiris-Fenerbahce, and Panathinaikos-Valencia all decided across Tuesday and Wednesday.
Seven Lega A games on Sunday May 10 close the regular season. Virtus Bologna lead at 21-5, Brescia chase at 20-6, and the bracket below is still moving.
Two Game 1s are in the books, two more tip Tuesday night. Here is the read on Knicks-76ers, Timberwolves-Spurs, Cavaliers-Pistons and Thunder-Lakers, with the box-score detail that matters.
Eight games to watch May 5-10: Knicks-Sixers, Thunder-Lakers, two EuroLeague semis, and a Lega A round that decides the playoff field.
What we learned from the weekend that just was: Round 1's final games, the EuroLeague playoff squeeze, and the Lega A regular-season finish line.
