Shai Gilgeous-Alexander beat Nikola Jokić on the road and then took his MVP award. Opening night is the first real opportunity for players and teams to show the world what they spent the summer working toward.

The NBA had just two games played last night, but two second-round picks made their mark with big opportunities.

Kenny Atkinson went on a tangent about having a three-game-in-four-night stretch during the opening week of the NBA regular season.

The Rockets and Thunder may have just given us the best season opener in NBA history. Houston controlled most of regulation, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander got hot in the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime.

Jokic's statistical marvel of a game has only been duplicated by one other player, a legend in his own right, since field goal percentage was first tracked in 1956-57.

The latest edition of Newsweek Sports Betting 📩 breaks down the NBA best bets for October 28 and Victor Wembanyama's MVP odds.

NBA Stat: Last night, Steph Curry tied Kevin Durant for most career 40-point games: 1. Wilt Chamberlain 271 2. Michael Jordan 173 3. Kobe Bryant 122 4. James Harden 105 5. Elgin Baylor 88 6. LeBron James 79 7. Allen Iverson 79 8. Oscar Robertson 77 9. Stephen Curry 72 9. Kevin Durant 72 #NBA

A week into the NBA season, the defenses are losing. Going into Tuesday, there have been 16 instances of a player scoring 40 or more points in a game already this season. Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers have already had 40-point games twice,

Michael Jordan criticized today's NBA stars for load management hurting the game and ruining the live experience for many fans.

The NBA’s action-packed opening-night doubleheader across NBC and Peacock drove massive engagement on social media last night, dominating the conversation on X: Opening night resulted in the league’s most-viewed tip-off ever with more than 600 million views and counting across all owned and third-party social accounts (source: Videocites).