About Courtside News

Courtside News is an independent NBA reference site. We maintain structured records of the things that are genuinely hard to look up in one place: who was drafted and by whom going back to the first draft, who actually controls each future pick once trades and protections are applied, and what every team is committed to paying under the salary cap.

What this site is, and what it is not

We are not a news wire. We do not run a breaking-news feed, and we do not republish or rewrite other outlets' reporting. If you want to know what happened in the league in the last hour, the beat writers who cover each team do that job better than anyone, and you should read them.

What we do is the slower half of the job. When a trade goes through, the interesting questions are usually structural. Which pick did that team actually give up, and was it protected. How far into the tax does this push them. Which of these contracts is guaranteed and which is not. Those answers live in databases rather than in headlines, and making them readable is what this site is for.

How we got here

The site launched in 2026 as a general NBA news site, summarising coverage from around the league. That was a crowded thing to be, and it was not adding much a reader could not get elsewhere. In August 2026 we retired that archive entirely and refocused on the datasets we compile ourselves. We would rather run a smaller site that is worth reading than a larger one that is not.

What we maintain

Who runs it

Courtside News is a small independent operation rather than a newsroom with a masthead. The site is built and maintained by its owner, who handles the data pipelines, the site itself, and the editorial decisions about what belongs on it. We would rather say that plainly than imply a staff that does not exist.

Published work carries the byline Alex Carter.

Our sourcing and accuracy standards are set out in the Editorial Policy, and anything we get wrong is logged on the Corrections page.

Independence

Courtside News is not affiliated with the NBA or any of its teams. Team names, logos and related marks belong to their respective owners and appear here for identification only. We do not publish betting content, odds or affiliate promotions.

Where to find us

Get in touch

Corrections, data disputes, feedback or business enquiries: email contact@courtsidenews.com or use the form on the Contact page. If you think a number on this site is wrong, that is the most useful message you can send us.