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Lakers Announce Exciting Plans Before New NBA Season

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Rodney Knuppel | Last updated Sep 8, 2025 1:18 PM ET

The 2025-26 NBA season is right around the corner, and one of the teams fans will have their eyes on all season long is the Los Angeles Lakers. It will be the first full season with Luka Doncic and LeBron James starting the season together.

As training camp grows closer, the Lakers announced an exciting update. Their announcement showed all the new promotions for the season. With the various recognition and promotions, the team sent out the following information:

"The Los Angeles Lakers today announced recognitions, game promotions, and fan giveaways for the upcoming 2025-26 Laker season, presented by Toyota. This year marks the Lakers' 78th season of competition and celebrates 50 years of partnership with Toyota."

#Lakers released their promotional schedule for the 2025-26 season: pic.twitter.com/2ry4fLfcYH
— Daniel Starkand (@DStarkand) September 8, 2025

The Lakers are set to start their 2025-26 season on Oct. 21, as they take on the Golden State Warriors. Fans in attendance for that game will receive a Lakers t-shirt. The first two games of the season for the Lakers are at home, as Minnesota comes in on Oct. 24.

Some of the other giveaways for Laker fans include a long-sleeve t-shirt, a Pechanga hat, a passport carrier, a Girl Dad Hat, shoelaces, and a beach bag. The Lakers also announced they would be unveiling a Pat Riley statue before the Feb. 22 game against the Boston Celtics.

Los Angeles will start the season with a likely starting lineup of Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura, LeBron James, and Dorian Finney-Smith. Off the bench for the Lakers, Gabe Vincent, Jordan Goowdin, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Maxi Kleber expect to fill out the depth chart.

The Lakers finish the regular season with their final two games at home. On April 10, the Lakers will host the Phoenix Suns. The finale is slated for April 12 as they take on the Utah Jazz.

A season ago, Doncic came over from Dallas and played the final 28 games as a member of the Lakers. He scored 28.2 points per game, recorded 8.2 rebounds, and dished out 7.4 assists per game. Many project LeBron James to be in his final season of his career. He will turn 41 years old in December. The top pick in the 2003 draft has played in more than 1,560 games in his NFL career.

Los Angeles lost in five games in the first round of the playoffs to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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