The 2025-26 NBA season rolls on Tuesday with five more matchups. The first tip comes at 7 p.m. ET as the Philadelphia 76ers (-3.5) take on the Washington Wizards. Philadelphia is off to a 3-0 start, and rookie guard VJ Edgecombe has been a star with 24.5 points per game thus far. He has an over/under of 19.5 points on Tuesday.

See the latest Emirates NBA Cup MVP odds for 2025, with Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the favorite as tournament action gets underway.

The Chicago Bulls are one of four unbeaten NBA teams heading into the Wednesday NBA schedule, when they will host the Sacramento Kings. Point guard Josh Giddey is averaging 19.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 6.

Jokić opened as the strong favorite after the close of the 2024-25 season with +250 odds, with SGA in second behind him at +450. By last week, SGA had jumped Jokić and shortened his odds to +250, with the three-time MVP dropping slightly to +300. At +275 now, they both have an implied probability of a little over 26 percent.

With the NBA season nearly underway, here is every team in the league ranked by its championship odds for the upcoming season.

Vaughn Dalzell breaks down the NBA MVP race after Victor Wembanyama and Shai Gilgeous-Alexnader had incredible weeks, while Luka Doncic and Anthony Edwards got bit by the injury bug.

The latest edition of Newsweek Sports Betting 📩 breaks down the NBA best bets for October 28 and Victor Wembanyama's MVP odds.

The 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year odds have fluctuated after several notable individual performances from the first week of the season.

The six group winners plus a wild card from each conference — determined by head-to-head record and point differential — go into an eight-team knockout round bracket (East vs. East, West vs. West, similar to the NBA playoffs where the conferences are separate until the Finals). The knockout round games are single-elimination.