ESPN predicts Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors will battle for the final guaranteed playoffs spot in the 2025-26 NBA season.

Golden State Warriors veteran forward Draymond Green was a guest on Kai Cenat’s stream on Tuesday. The four-time champion was stunned when streamer Tylil James favored rival team, the LA Lakers over the Warriors as title contenders next season. Green inquired from Tylil James about the chance of LeBron James winning another title:

Luka Doncic's strong play in EuroBasket has the Lakers wanting to make some more moves to put talent around him.

The Dallas Mavericks ' decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers will go down as one of the more memorable and confusing trades in NBA history, if not the worst trade ever. Doncic had just led the Mavs to the NBA Finals the season before, but then Nico Harrison decided he had enough and dumped Doncic in the middle of the night.

The Lakers still value their lone tradeable first-round pick, either in 2031 or 2032, as a piece earmarked for a much bigger move in the future. However, they have a mixture of expiring contracts and a former first-round pick in Dalton Knecht that could be packaged together if another team were looking to shed salary.