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The NBA is back, and LeBron James wasted no time making a statement in a new uniform. The forty-one-year-old suited up for the Philadelphia seventy-sixers on opening night and helped knock off the defending champion New York Knicks, finishing with fourteen points and a handful of assists in his record-extending twenty-fourth season. Four teams, four championships, and still going.
Speaking of the Knicks, head coach Mike Brown wasn't exactly popping champagne after the loss, and for good reason. Brown admitted his team was playing with fire down the stretch, leaning on late-game heroics and the emotional energy of ring night rather than executing with discipline. He made it clear that kind of basketball won't cut it over an eighty-two game stretch, and the Knicks need to clean it up fast.
And over in San Antonio, Victor Wembanyama had a rough welcome to the two thousand twenty-six to twenty-seven season. The Spurs fell to Oklahoma City one hundred sixteen to one hundred four on opening night, and Wembanyama acknowledged afterward that a combination of conditioning and rhythm issues contributed to one of the ugliest performances of his young career. The good news, the season is long and Wemby knows it.
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