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

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.

The Cavaliers have been without Darius Garland to start this season. Here's the latest on his injury status ahead of a big Pistons game.

From rookie debuts to rising stars to disappointing teams, here are 10 takeaways from the NBA's first full night of games.

Austin Reaves averaged a career-best 20.2 points per game last season, and he ramped it up to 22.8 points per game from February 1 through the end of the regular season. In three games played with Luka and without LeBron, he posted totals of 28, 30, and 22.

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

Jimmy Butler led the Golden State Warriors to a road win over the Los Angeles Lakers on opening night while the Oklahoma City Thunder outlasted the Houston Rockets on opening night.

NBC's broadcast of the NBA tip-off was up 87% in viewers compared to last year and marked the season opener's biggest audience in more than a decade.

An 11-game slate in the NBA kicks off the first full week of games, and there are a ton of teams either playing a back-to-back or preparing for the front end of

New York, Golden State, Denver and Cleveland round out the top five, but there is a lot of movement this week.

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).