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2025–26 LNB Élite season
The 2025-26 Betclic Élite season was the French top basketball division's 2025-26 campaign: 15 clubs, DAZN broadcasts, AS Monaco winning the title over Paris Basketball 101-92 in Game 5 for a quadruple, then exclusion for 2026-27.
2025–26 Los Angeles Clippers season
2025-26 Los Angeles Clippers NBA season: finished 42-40, 9th in the West under Tyronn Lue; started 6-21, first team ever 15 games under .500 to finish winning; lost the Play-In to Golden State; added Beal, Paul, Collins, Lopez.
2025–26 Los Angeles Lakers season
2025-26 Los Angeles Lakers season: 80th NBA campaign, first full year of Luka Doncic and LeBron James under JJ Redick; finished 53-29, eighth in the West, with Doncic averaging 33.5 points.
2025–26 Memphis Grizzlies season
The 2025-26 Memphis Grizzlies season, the franchise's 31st NBA campaign under first-year head coach Tuomas Iisalo, ended 25-57 without a playoff berth after the Bane and Jackson trades and record-setting injuries.
2025–26 Miami Heat season
2025-26 Miami Heat season: 43-39, 10th in the East, coached by Erik Spoelstra. League-leading pace, Norman Powell and Simone Fontecchio added, fourth straight play-in berth, no playoffs, then the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.
2025–26 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
2025-26 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, coached by Dusty May, went 37-3 (19-1 Big Ten), won the Big Ten regular-season title and the 2026 NCAA championship over UConn 69-63, Michigan's first title since 1989.
2025–26 Milwaukee Bucks season
2025–26 Milwaukee Bucks season: NBA team season. Bucks waived Damian Lillard, signed Myles Turner, finished 32–50 (11th East) as Giannis Antetokounmpo played 36 games, then traded him to Miami in June 2026.
2025–26 Minnesota Timberwolves season
2025-26 Minnesota Timberwolves season: NBA franchise's 37th season under coach Chris Finch and new Lore-Rodriguez ownership; finished 49-33, sixth in the West, lost conference semifinals 4-2 to San Antonio after beating Denver.
2025–26 NBA G League season
2025–26 NBA G League season, the league's 25th, ran Nov 7, 2025 to April 2026 with 31 teams, a 14-game Tip-Off Tournament plus 36-game regular season, first 16-team playoffs, first multi-year CBA, and Salt Lake City Stars winning the Winter Showcase.
2025–26 NBA season
The 2025–26 NBA season is the 80th regular season of the National Basketball Association, running from October 21, 2025 to April 12, 2026, followed by the playoffs.
2025–26 NBL season
2025–26 NBL season (Hungry Jack's NBL26), the Australian National Basketball League's 48th season, tipped off September 18, 2025; ten teams, 33 games each, new Ignite Cup, Illawarra Hawks defending champions, Bryce Cotton to Adelaide.
2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
2025-26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season: Purdue preseason AP No. 1; Duke overall top seed; Michigan (37-3) beat UConn in Indianapolis for its first title in 37 years; new coach's challenge and continuous motion rules; last 68-team field before 76-team expansion.
2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, also called women's college basketball 2025-26; UConn entered as defending champion and AP preseason No. 1; new coach's challenge rule, WAB selection metric, 68-team NCAA tournament, UCLA–South Carolina title game drew 9.9 million viewers.
2025–26 New Orleans Pelicans season
2025-26 New Orleans Pelicans season: NBA season ending 26-56, 11th in the West. Willie Green fired November 2025, James Borrego interim, Jamahl Mosley hired May 2026 under Joe Dumars after offseason trades for Jordan Poole and draft picks Fears and Queen.
2025–26 New York Knicks season
2025-26 New York Knicks season: 53-29, third in the East; won the franchise's first NBA title since 1973, beating San Antonio in five Finals games after a 16-3, +283 playoff run and the NBA Cup, under new coach Mike Brown.
2025–26 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
2025-26 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Hubert Davis's fifth UNC squad: finished 24-9, 12-6 ACC, 18-0 at Smith Center, No. 6 NCAA seed, lost to VCU in overtime; Caleb Wilson led with 19.8 ppg; Michael Malone hired afterward.
2025–26 Oklahoma City Thunder season
2025-26 Oklahoma City Thunder season: defending NBA champions' title-defense campaign. Opened Oct 21, 2025 vs Houston on NBC; finished 64-18, first in the West, swept Phoenix and the Lakers 4-0 in the 2026 playoffs.
2025–26 Orlando Magic season
The 2025–26 Orlando Magic season: NBA campaign in which Orlando went 45–37, added Desmond Bane and Tyus Jones, lost a 3–1 playoff lead to Detroit, and fired coach Jamahl Mosley for Sean Sweeney.
2025–26 Philadelphia 76ers season
2025-26 Philadelphia 76ers season: NBA campaign in which the Sixers went 45-37, reached the playoffs as the East's seventh seed, beat Boston in a Game 7 led by Joel Embiid, then were swept by the Knicks in the conference semifinals.
2025–26 Phoenix Suns season
2025-26 Phoenix Suns season: NBA season in which the rebuilt Suns, after trading Kevin Durant and buying out Bradley Beal, went 45-37 under first-year coach Jordan Ott, 7th in the West, and lost the first round 0-4 to Oklahoma City.
2025–26 Portland Trail Blazers season
2025-26 Portland Trail Blazers season: NBA campaign in which Portland went 42-40, beat Phoenix in the play-in for the No. 7 seed, and lost 1-4 to San Antonio in round one, under interim coach Tiago Splitter after Chauncey Billups's October 2025 arrest.
2025–26 Sacramento Kings season
The 2025–26 Sacramento Kings season: NBA Pacific Division campaign under coach Doug Christie that finished 22–60, last in the Pacific and 14th in the Western Conference, with a −10.0 net rating and no playoff berth.
2025–26 San Antonio Spurs season
2025-26 San Antonio Spurs season: 60th Spurs season, Mitch Johnson's first as coach. Went 62-20 (2nd West), beat OKC in 7-game WCF, lost NBA Finals 1-4 to Knicks; built around Wembanyama, Fox, Harper.
2025–26 Super League Basketball season
2025–26 Super League Basketball season, second SLB season in Great Britain. London Lions won the quadruple (Championship, Trophy, Cup, Playoffs), beating Cheshire Phoenix 104-81; season played amid the SLB-BBF-FIBA governance dispute.
2025–26 Toronto Raptors season
2025-26 Toronto Raptors season: NBA campaign in which Toronto went 46-36, finished fifth in the Eastern Conference under Darko Rajakovic, and lost a seven-game first-round playoff series to Cleveland.
2025–26 UCLA Bruins women's basketball team
2025-26 UCLA Bruins women's basketball team, coached by Cori Close, went 37-1 (18-0 Big Ten), won the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles, and claimed UCLA's first NCAA women's basketball championship, beating South Carolina 79-51 on April 5, 2026.
2025–26 UConn Huskies women's basketball team
2025–26 UConn Huskies women's basketball team, defending NCAA champion under Geno Auriemma (41st season), preseason AP No. 1; finished 38–1 (20–0 Big East), lost national semifinal 62–48 to South Carolina; Strong 18.4 PPG, Fudd 17.3.
2025–26 Utah Jazz season
2025-26 Utah Jazz season: NBA season in which Utah went 22-60, last in the Western Conference, amid a rebuild around Lauri Markkanen, Keyonte George, and Ace Bailey, with trades sending Collins, Sexton, and Clarkson out and Kessler and Jaren Jackson Jr. injured.
2025–26 Washington Wizards season
The 2025–26 Washington Wizards season was the franchise's 65th NBA season, in which Washington finished last in the Eastern Conference at 17–65 and missed the playoffs under head coach Brian Keefe.
2025–26 Women's EHF Champions League
2025–26 Women's EHF Champions League, top European women's handball club competition; 16 teams, two groups of eight, Györ defending; FINAL4 in Budapest 6-7 June 2026, semi-finals won by CSM Bucuresti and Metz Handball.