Run it Back! NBA Week in Review - 2025-26 - Week #7

Untitled project from SquadCast === thepeachbasket_1_12-07-2025_161855: [00:00:00] Week seven of the 2025-26 NBA Season is over, which means it's time to run it back. This is run it back NBA week in review. I'm Jose Salviati, Editor at thePeachBasket.net, and this is the show where we recap the week that was in the NBA and then highlight the marquee matchup for the week to come. We start like we always do with the only objective overall top 10 NBA power rankings. Anywhere you can read more about how we get to these rankings, why they're objective, and see the entire list@thepeachbasket.net. Let's take a look at the top 10 at the conclusion of week number seven. ~Starting us off at number 10 are the New York Knicks. They had a pretty good week and week number seven at three and one, which was enough to move them all the way up to number 10 from.~ Let's start at number 10, where the New York Knicks had a pretty good week in week number seven. They were three in one, but that wasn't enough to keep them where they were last week. That was number nine. They dropped one ~spot ~to take the number 10 spot. Number nine are the Toronto Raptors. Now they were off to a really good start, but had a bit of a road bump in week number seven, going [00:01:00] one and three, and that cost them, they dropped from number six to number nine in week number seven. The Boston Celtics are going in the other direction. They started off a little bumpy and now they're starting to get their bearings. They had a four and oh, a perfect four and oh week and week number seven, which was enough to move them way up into the number eight spot. First time in the top 10 for the Boston Celtics. The Miami Heat were one and three struggled a bit in week number seven, and it cost them, they dropped two spots to take the number seven spot in week number seven. The Los Angeles Lakers were without Luca Donit for part of the week. LeBron James lost his double digit streak but they still had a good, okay. Week, let's call it two and two. Week number seven, they dropped one spot. Two number six. The San Antonio Spurs, oddly enough, were also two and two, but that moved them up from number eight to number five. And that is because our rankings are points based. We care [00:02:00] only about who you win where you beat them. And the San Antonio Spurs beat a really good Orlando magic team that was just enough to catapult them up this week. They come in at number five. The Denver Nuggets were also two and one in week number seven. And that's then move up let's see, three spots from number seven up to number four. The top three stay exactly the same. The Houston Rockets were three and two, and week number seven, they remain at number three. The Detroit Pistons were three and one, and week number seven remain at number two. And the number one team was, once again perfect. The absolutely incredible and seemingly unbeatable. Oklahoma City Thunder had a perfect week at three and oh in week number seven. They're 22 in one overall, and come in at number one yet again. That's it. That's the objective top 10 list for week number seven. If you wanna see where all 30 teams land this week, please visit the peach basket.net. [00:03:00] Now let's shift our focus to the players. These are the best to do it by average in week number seven of the 20 25, 26 NBA season. These are the best by average in shooting rebounds, assist blocks, steals points, and game score. Let's start with the best overall. Score he plays in Los Angeles. Luca Duch had two games, average 36 points to lead the association. Now the best sniper, the best three point maker in week number seven may surprise you. Michael Porter Jr. Is having a heck of a season in Brooklyn. He played three games and average more, made three point shots than anybody at 5.7. He was also the top field goal maker over his three games. Played again averaging 12.3. The best rebounder is Jalen Johnson. He had four games and was just a stud pulling down 14.3 rebounds over those four games. Mitchell Robinson was the top offensive rebounder pulling down 4.7 in his three games [00:04:00] played and Jalen Johnson again was the top defensive rebounder pulling down 12.5 defensive rebounds. Let's move to assists. The top assist man in week number seven was, once again not a guard. It was, once again, Nicole Yoki for games 11 Assist. He is in a class by himself. The top blocks guys. Definitely gonna surprise some people. Jay Huff played four games and sent back 3.5 shots. The journeyman may have found a home. Let's certainly hope so. In Indiana that's a heck of a week for j Huff, the top steels guy played one game. PJ Washington took away five possessions from the other team to lead everybody in week number seven, and the best player in the NBA had the best game score 29.9 depicting his overall incredibleness. Nikola Jokic played four games [00:05:00] and had the best game score 29.9. Now let's look ahead to week number eight. Week number eight, we have the quarterfinals and the semifinals of the NBA cup. I don't know what you think about it. I'm, I don't know, man. I can't get behind it yet. But we'll see, you know what history tells us? Let's see how long they do it. Let's see if people get behind it. But this. Season or quarter season tournament goes into play next week. And the big question of course is can anyone stop the Oklahoma City Thunder? They're gonna take on the Phoenix Suns and the semi pardon me, in the quarterfinals, the winner there takes on either the Spurs or the Lakers on their way to the NBA Cup finals, which is a weird game that doesn't count. It doesn't count for anything. The stats don't count but you get to raise a trophy. Let's see how that plays out. That'll be next week. But certainly the quarters and the semis are, se the se, the NBA finals are, darn it. The NBA cup finals are in two weeks. The quarter and the [00:06:00] semifinals are next week. Now we'll end our segment with what we call full court press. I like to ask AI for its thoughts on viral training NBA news as we head into week number eight and see what it comes up with. And this is what it said. Harden's historic scoring climb. He cracked the top 10 in the all time scoring list cracks to James Harden. A little sliver of positivity in la in an otherwise horrible start to the season. Of course, the thunder's blistering start. They're 22 and one. That's big news, no doubt. Anthony Davis, he's taking over the Mavs and somewhere Nico Harrison is muttering. I told you let's see if that can keep up. And let's see if Kyrie can come back and then who knows? And then Pat Spencer's viral breakout. He's having a moment in San Francisco. And the last thing that AI said is big news in the NBA are the Nicks, the magic, and some injury ripples, which unfortunately is always the case in the NBA. For the first time since I've been doing this, I'm not gonna talk about any of those though. I wanna focus on something that's not on AI's [00:07:00] list and that is this. Is Steve Bomber bad for the Los Angeles Clippers? And I know that's a crazy thought, saying that even a month ago would've been considered ridiculous. This is the guy that saved the franchise from the previous owner. He injected enthusiasm and money, lots of money into a franchise with very little positive history. Thanks. In large part to his efforts, the tide was turning in la The Clippers were the better regular season team. It was undeniable. They were better than the Lakers. For a long time not losing a single season series to them~ over 12 years or really I think it was more than 12 years.~ Despite all of that, the team was never able to get what they wanted, of course, the championship, but how could this guy, the guy who did all that, be considered bad for the team? Blake Griffin recently said about Steve Bomber. No, he didn't say directly about bomber, but the shoe fits. An organization is built on a foundation of respect. [00:08:00] It's built on how you treat people, and for an NBA franchise, it's built on how you treat your players. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul were undeniably among the best ever do in the Clippers jersey. They are Clippers royalty. If the Clippers ever are to raise a jersey in the Intuit dome those two have got to be considered and both were unceremoniously cut from the team that they helped raise from the ashes. An organization is built on a foundation of respect. It's built on how you treat people. Steve Baller wants a winner in Inglewood and he should. That's the job. The previous owner wanted money. He didn't want a winner. He didn't care whether his team's win, won or not and it was just a horrible time during his ownership for that and a bunch of other reasons. I'd much rather have an owner that wants to win, but not at the expense of the players. CP three. Loud and opinionated. Sure, of course. But that's who he has [00:09:00] always been. And surely the Clippers knew that when they signed him to let him go. This is a bad look for the franchise and leaves a stain on an otherwise amazing run for Steve Bomber. The Clippers will need to retool and rebound soon because I don't know that there's any escape, quick escape from what they find themselves in right now as a franchise. Don't you think great players will think about what happened to Blake Griffin and CP three when they consider offers from the clippers a few years from now? They will. They'll think about it, and it just may cost them the chance to return to competitive basketballs quickly, as they would no doubt. Steve Baumer might need to learn to balance winning with good old fashioned respect for others, hopefully for the Clippers and their incredible fans. He learns that lesson soon. That's it. Week number seven of the 20 25, 26 NBA season is in the books. Join us again next week after week number eight, when we once [00:10:00] again run it back.