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With preseason games already underway, the 2026-27 NBA season is only a few weeks away from tipping off.

How will LeBron James and Jaylen Brown look on the court in their new Philadelphia 76ers uniforms? What will Giannis Antetokounmpo's first season away from Milwaukee look like? And how will the other new faces in new places make their impact this season?

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ESPN reporter Anthony Slater wrote Thursday about Golden State Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg, who has impressed teammates and coaches ahead of the season. Here's a quote about Lendeborg from coach Steve Kerr:

«We're in a position now [as opposed to past seasons] where we can be thinking of development. Not just for Yaxel, but our whole group. We are not in the [championship] conversation. So let's see what we can do as a group to kind of reestablish what we stand for and how we operate and new beginnings in a lot of ways. All of that is really exciting to me. And Yaxel's a big part of that.»

Read the full story here.

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The legal dispute over the right to sell the Buss family's remaining stake in the Los Angeles Lakers continued Wednesday with five of the Buss siblings filing their case against their sister, Lakers acting governor, Jeanie Buss.

«Jimmy, Johnny, Janie, Joey and Jesse Buss, the five of six siblings who voted to sell the Trust's shares in the Lakers, today filed their formal opposition, demonstrating that Jeanie Buss's petition is legally and factually baseless,» the siblings said in a