The NBA never stops moving, and neither does Carter. Each week brings a fast, entertaining trip through the games, stars, surprises, controversies, and tactical swings shaping the league—without turning the show into a box-score recital. Catch the stories everyone will be talking about next, from the Afterplay Network.
The Oklahoma City Thunder's nightmare, Philadelphia's 3-0 start with LeBron and Embiid, Jokic's historic comeback, the Warriors in freefall, and a rookie class that refuses to be quiet. NBA Weekly with Carter Reynolds recaps the wildest first week of the 2026-27 season and looks ahead to what comes next.
20 Oct 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Oct 18, 2026
The Ben Simmons Achilles injury is the story nobody saw coming and everybody felt. Carter breaks down what it means for the Kings, for Simmons himself, and for a league that just watched a comeback story die before it could tip off. Plus: Opening Night previews, the Warriors' injury nightmare, LeBron and Jaylen Brown heading to Philadelphia, the Knicks defending their first title in 53 years, and everything else you need to know as the 2026-27 season begins.
12 Oct 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Oct 11, 2026
The defending champion Knicks pause all contract talks, LeBron James makes his Sixers debut, Giannis gets goosebumps in Miami, Fred VanVleet returns after 500 days, and the injury report is longer than the schedule. Carter breaks down the biggest stories across the NBA as preseason wraps up.
4 Oct 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Oct 4, 2026
Sunday, October 4, 2026 | ~6,000–7,500 words | Season hasn't tipped yet, so this is the definitive pre-season map: what the 2026-27 schedule reveals, what the numbers say about tiredness, where the lottery gold sits, and which calendars break differently.
27 Sept 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Sep 27, 2026
Carter Reynolds breaks down the NBA's defining offseason: the Giannis trade to Miami, the Morant and LaMelo moves, Washington's max-extension gamble, five new coaches, a rebuilt schedule, and the injury returns that will decide a loaded Eastern Conference — 23 days before opening night.
21 Sept 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Sep 20, 2026
Offseason special: the blockbuster trades that redrew the East, the camp battles and injuries that will shape September, and the CBA economics underneath it all — nine days before training camps open.
17 Sept 2026
NBA Weekly with Carter — Sep 13, 2026
The week the Clippers scandal swallowed the league: the Wachtell findings, the harshest sanctions in modern NBA history, a frozen Kawhi Leonard trade, and a Board of Governors meeting that will force Adam Silver to answer for all of it.
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