Brad Botkin

Pistons stole a barnburner off a half-court heave that felt like poetic justice

The Hornets' current average margin of victory this season (16.9 points) is the fourth-highest mark in NBA history

Meanwhile, nobody knows what to make of the Rockets or Knicks

Cunningham and SGA are the only two candidates currently on track to hit the 65-game threshold this season

Brooks is out and now Phoenix is going to rely on another piece of the Kevin Durant trade

Cunningham's case is stronger than many realize, as he leads the NBA's top team and stacks up with SGA and Nikola Jokic

Playoff contenders will be happy to see tanking teams on the schedule in March and April

The All-Star break is behind us, and there's plenty to figure out in the NBA over the next two months

With the trade deadline in the books, we're looking ahead to forecast how things will look at the end of the NBA regular season

By playing both sides of this trade saga, Giannis is looking increasingly bad

Meanwhile, the Houston Rockets are going in the wrong direction

Porziņģis is a perfect theoretical fit, but reality paints a more depressing picture

Dallas, after one of the strangest years a team has ever had, is officially Cooper Flagg's team now

Every post-Houston stop on the Harden career carousel came with its own set of unique circumstances

CBS Sports' NBA experts are getting bold ahead of Thursday's trade deadline