Desmond Bane matched his season high with 37 points and the Magic advanced to the NBA Cup semifinals with a 117-108 victory over the Heat.

Jaylen Brown scored 30 points, Derrick White scored 14 of his 27 in the first quarter and the Boston Celtics beat Toronto 121-113 on Sunday, holding on late after blowing a 23-point lead in the second half.

As the 2025-26 NBA season approaches the two-month mark, we should all be talking about how dominant the Oklahoma City Thunder have been sitting at 22-1. Or perhaps we should also be talking about how Denver Nuggets big Nikola Jokić appears poised to win a fourth MVP award.

Cade Cunningham scored 19 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter as the Detroit Pistons won their fourth straight, beating the Utah Jazz 114-103 on Wednesday night.

Expert recap and game analysis of the Boston Celtics vs. Toronto Raptors NBA game from December 7, 2025 on ESPN.

Tim Legler was not a fan of ESPN’s box score changes. / Photo by Logan Riely/NBAE via Getty Images Basketball fans felt a sigh of relief on Thursday as ESPN changed their NBA box score format after a month of complaints. Fans who were checking box scores ...

The ESPN NBA staff appears to have learned an old lesson the hard way: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. All season, hoops fans have griped about the network’s cluttered update to the layout of its NBA box scores. On the ESPN website and app, box ...

From a user experience perspective, it doesn't get more frustrating than when a site makes changes just for the sake of change. ESPN certainly fell victim to that this basketball season. But hey, at least the network took notice to the widespread complaints.