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LeBron James has spent 23 seasons in the NBA ignoring the usual rules about age, and he’s not finished yet. The 41-year-old opens his 24th NBA season with the Philadelphia 76ers in October, further than any player in league history has gone. Vince Carter’s 22 seasons was the old benchmark. James passed it and kept going. Four milestones are within reach this season. That includes an outright NBA record and a scoring total no player has ever reached.

The Los Angeles Lakers will enter the 2026-27 season with unknown expectations following LeBron James’ departure. After 18 months of balancing Luka Doncic alongside LeBron James, the Lakers have now fully handed the keys to the Slovenian for the foreseeable future. Austin Reaves is set to step into the No. 2 role, while the rest of the roster looks almost unrecognizable after a summer rebuild. NBA Analysis Network poses three questions that will define the LA Lakers’ season.

The NBA’s 2026-27 schedule rollout has begun, and opening night will feature three highly-anticipated matchups from both conferences. The festivities of the new season will start at 3:00 PM (ET) with the Detroit Pistons hosting the Boston Celtics in a clash of the top two Eastern Conference seeds from last season.

Mike D’Antoni enters the Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday night for his contributions to the game over a 16-year coaching career. The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame enshrines its Class of 2026 in Springfield, Massachusetts on August 15th. D’Antoni is among the 9 inductees. The Hall’s contributors committee selected him, crediting the style of play that reshaped modern basketball.

The schedule for the 2026-27 NBA season has just been released, and Christmas Day is set to deliver five marquee matchups. This year’s slate features LeBron James’ return to the Los Angeles Lakers and a rematch of the 2026 NBA Finals. NBA Analysis Network ranks all five Christmas Day games from the least to the most compelling. Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images The Golden State Warriors’ Christmas Day game against the Denver Nuggets can only be in fifth place on this list.

The 2026-27 NBA regular season is only two months away, but the schedule has still not been announced. However, we already know that there will likely be two blockbuster games on the opening night and five on Christmas Day. NBA Analysis has predicted which teams will be involved on both occasions, including LeBron James facing the New York Knicks.

Former No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons is eyeing a return to the NBA in the 2026-27 season after going unsigned for the entirety of last season. Simmons was last seen in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, spending half a season with them after getting waived by the Brooklyn Nets earlier in the 2023-24 season.

Ben Simmons began a week of training with Australia’s Boomers in Melbourne on Monday, and NBA teams are watching closely. The three-time All-Star paid his own way to the player-led national team mini-camp in Port Melbourne, training alongside Josh Giddey and Dyson Daniels. Simmons has not played an NBA game since the 2024-25 season, when 51 quiet appearances for Brooklyn and the Clippers produced 5.0 points a night. Back trouble had already wrecked the four years before that.

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games in June to win their first NBA championship since 1973. That ended 53 years of waiting at Madison Square Garden, the third-longest active title drought in the league at the time. Crossing the Knicks off leaves a list that has otherwise barely changed in decades. Twenty of the NBA’s 30 franchises have won a championship and ten never have.

Let’s get straight to it. How do Luka Doncic and Anthony Edwards’ best seasons compare? We break it all down. Luka Doncic and Anthony Edwards are the two biggest basketball superstars playing today to never win the NBA Championship or never win the MVP. Both have come close – and they will both be looking to put that right in 2026-27. But who has the best statistical resume?