The full NBA schedule for the 2025-26 season will be released this Thursday, Aug. 14. In the meantime, there have been a few leaks as far as marquee matchups that will be on the schedule.
The Los Angeles Lakers will be hosting Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors in their first regular-season game, which will be on Oct. 21. Then, on Christmas Day, they will face Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets at Crypto.com Arena.
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Sean Cunningham, a reporter for KCRA, Sacramento’s NBC affiliate, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that the Lakers will visit the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, Oct. 26.
The Kings have mostly been a bad or mediocre team for almost two decades, although they have improved over the last three seasons. They made major changes dating back to last summer, starting with their acquisition of veteran wing DeMar DeRozan and that three-team trade in February that sent De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs while netting them Zach LaVine.
They likely won’t make the playoffs or perhaps even the play-in tournament this coming season. However, with studs such as DeRozan, LaVine and Domantas Sabonis, as well as former Laker guards Malik Monk and Dennis Schroder, the Kings are a team the Lakers cannot ever take lightly.
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This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: Another early-season Lakers game has been leaked