NBA: the guide to the 2026-27 season
by Daniel Titus
€6.50+
The 2026-27 NBA season opens on Tuesday 20 October, and a lot has changed since the summer. The New York Knicks are champions after 53 years. Giannis Antetokounmpo plays in Miami, Jaylen Brown and LeBron James in Philadelphia, Kawhi Leonard in Toronto. The draft lottery is being rebuilt, the second apron is forcing teams to let good players go, and a federal betting investigation is still running.
This book walks through that whole season with you, from the summer to the title.
If you do not follow the NBA yet, it explains the game and the league around it: what traveling is, how an offense is built, what a salary cap does, how the draft works, why a team lets a good player go, and what all the jargon means.
If you do follow the NBA, it is a look ahead: my top ten title contenders on their own cards, what I expect from every team, the players about to break out, and the questions the summer left open.
And if you watch from Europe, it tells you where to find the games and when they start, with the local times, plus a chapter on the Dutch players in the league: Quinten Post at Memphis, Malevy Leons at Golden State, Tristan Enaruna at Cleveland and Rienk Mast.
What is in it
The game in short: the rules, the positions, the numbers and the words that go with them
The summer of 2026: the draft, the big trades, the contracts and six coaching changes
What changes: the new lottery system, the second apron, what referees are watching more closely, the betting case, the sanctions against the Clippers, expansion and NBA Europe
My expectations: a top ten on their own cards, plus all thirty teams
The season from the Netherlands, with the Dutch players and the viewing times
The season itself: opening night, the NBA Cup, Christmas Day, MLK Day, the games outside America, the trade deadline and All-Star Weekend
From the closing weeks to the Finals: the play-in, the playoffs and the road to the title
Last season's awards and numbers, and a tribute to the champion
Appendices: the final standings, the full draft, every team's summer, the 2026-27 calendar and a glossary
How it was made
115 pages, nine chapters and 53 figures that carry the story visually: what both sides give up in a trade, how the play-in works, what the second apron does to a roster, the shape of the season.
At the back are 173 notes covering 184 sources, in APA, with the link underneath. Every number, date and result in this book can be traced. Anything that could not be verified is not in it.
What you get
The PDF, 115 pages, with a clickable table of contents and clickable notes
The EPUB for your e-reader, phone or tablet
Both files without copy protection, so they are yours