NBA NewsTuesday, Apr 7, 2026

The NBA regular season enters its final week this Monday, April 6, as the Portland Trail Blazers travel to the Mile High City to face the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena. Denver (50-28) currently holds the fourth seed in the Western Conference and is riding a scorching eight-game winning streak as they fight for home-court advantage in the first round. Meanwhile, the Trail Blazers (40-38) are in a desperate fight for their postseason lives. Currently sitting in the ninth spot, Portland is lookin...

The Pistons are promoting two-way player to Tolu Smith to their 15-man roster and will sign him to a new standard two-year contract, agent Corey Marcum tells Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). Smith, who went undrafted out of Mississippi State in 2024, signed a two-year, two-way contract with the Pistons in January of 2025 […]

The Pistons have issued updates on a trio of injured players, making the following announcements on Saturday (Twitter link): Forward Tobias Harris has been diagnosed with a left hip sprain and will be reevaluated in two weeks. Center Jalen Duren has a sprained right ankle and will be reevaluated in one week. Guard/forward Caris LeVert […]

The Golden State Warriors have not made any substantial progress in trade conversations on a deal involving Jonathan Kuminga. Kuminga becomes trade eligible on January 15th and the Sacramento Kings remain the most interested team. Sources from the Warriors have said the team is prepared to keep Kuminga past the trade deadline if no deal to their liking materializes. However, Kuminga has played only 10 minutes over the past month as he remains firmly out of Steve Kerr's rotation. Kuminga has a...

Although rival executives have been expecting new Wizards point guard Trae Young to exercise his $49MM player option for 2026/27, he has yet to make a decision on that option, according to David Aldridge, Sam Amick, and Josh Robbins of The Athletic, who say the four-time All-Star is also open to discussing a contract extension […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo responded to boos from his home fans in kind, giving two thumbs down to the crowd following an and-1 layup during Tuesday's blowout loss to the Wolves.

For the first time in a decade, the Milwaukee Bucks are not playoff-bound, and tensions appear to be high. Amid a contentious battle between the Bucks and superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo over an injury that sparked an NBA investigation, more alleged details of Milwaukee’s dysfunction have been reported. Specifically, ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania detailed a […] The post Bucks rumors: Doc Rivers called out Kyle Kuzma before benching in meeting that ‘rubbed locker room wrong way’ appeared fir...

With just three games left in the 2025-26 regular season, the San Antonio Spurs are experiencing a crazy plot twist. During their win against the Philadelphia 76ers, star center and MVP candidate Victor Wembanyama went down with an upper-body injury. Wembanyama was able to finish the first half, but was ruled out of the second […] The post Spurs’ Mitch Johnson delivers ‘positive’ Victor Wembanyama’s injury update appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Back out on the road, once more

Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski explained his reasoning for not setting screen on final play of the team's 117-116 loss to the Rockets.

Jokić will miss at least four weeks, but avoided a season-ending injury

Brown will attempt to record his 10th consecutive 30-point game Tuesday night, which would break Bird's record