Must-See NBA Legends Set to Dominate This Week!

It’s the final month of the 2025-26 NBA regular season . This means teams are running out of chances to make their final arguments for playoff seeding, just like players are running out of time to convince voters to select them for individual awards. It also means the best basketball of the year is in front of us, as the two-month marathon that is the NBA playoffs gets underway April 18.

But, before we get ahead of ourselves, this should make for a compelling finish to what has been an interesting season. Here are the top five storylines to watch for the rest of the 2025-26 NBA regular season: NBA POWER RANKINGS: Are the surging Lakers a threat out West? Can anyone catch the Pistons and Thunder atop the Eastern and Western Conferences?

Since the start of the season, the Oklahoma City Thunder have led the West wire-to-wire, even in the face of significant time lost due to injury. In the East, the Detroit Pistson took over sole possession of first on Nov. 7 and haven't looked back since.

Being practical, there are only two teams in the East — the Boston Celtics (3½ games back) and the New York Knicks (5) — who can potentially catch Detroit. And while it doesn’t help that Detroit has the 22nd-toughest remaining schedule (. 485, per Tankathon.