The initial odds for the 2025-26 season list 2025 champ Oklahoma City as the heavy favorite, followed by the Rockets, Cavaliers and Knicks.

Achilles tendon injuries have become all-too-familiar headlines in professional sports, and this NBA season saw more than its usual share. During the NBA playoffs alone, Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard tore his left Achilles in the first round against the Indiana Pacers,

The Indiana Pacers were playing for the NBA championship on Sunday night. But when star Tyrese Haliburton was carried off the floor with an Achilles injury late in the first quarter of Game 7 of the finals,

Tyrese Haliburton laid on his stomach with just over five minutes left in the first quarter of Game 7 of the NBA Finals, pounding the floor as emotions poured out of him.  Not this.  Not now.  Anyone who has closely followed the playoffs knew Haliburton suffered an Achilles injury without needing to go to medical school or seeing the official results of an MRI.