We are one month into the 2025-26 NBA season -- a campaign already featuring plenty of spectacular moments. The Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets played arguably the game of the year in the first battle of the season, and things haven't slowed since.
A month isn't long enough to guarantee anything -- last season's Indiana Pacers, for example, started 6-10 and in 11th place in the Eastern Conference before their eventual run to Game 7 of the NBA Finals -- but it is long enough for storylines to develop that could shape the next few months of play, the run up to the February trade deadline and the race to the playoffs.