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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> – On Tuesday, it was announced the “Battle of California” was set to be one of the marquee matchups for NBA Opening Night.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The 80th NBA season officially tips off on Tuesday, Oct. 21.<\/p>\n NBC and Peacock will host a doubleheader to celebrate, starting off with the defending champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, taking on Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets at 4:30 p.m. PT.\u00a0<\/p>\n At 7 p.m., the Los Angeles Lakers will host the Golden State Warriors at the Crypto.com Arena. Not only does this mark LeBron James and Stephen Curry’s 57th matchup, it’s also a historic night in that James will become the first player in league history to play 23 seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n PREVIOUS: <\/strong>LeBron James returning to the Lakers for his 23rd season: reports<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The Lakers have been busy in the offseason looking toward the future and building around their new star, Luka Don\u010di\u0107. Earlier this month, the team reached a three-year extension with Doncic for a reported $165 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n RELATED COVERAGE: <\/strong>LA Lakers, Luka Doncic reach 3-year extension: ‘This is just the beginning’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The international superstar reportedly helped bring Deandre Ayton and Marcus Smart to LA.<\/p>\n Lakers vs. Rockets on Christmas Day <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n James and Durant, Olympic teammates, will face one another on Christmas Day at 5 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This story was written with information provided by the NBA.<\/p>\n Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>NBA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – On Tuesday, it was announced the “Battle of California” was set to be one of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8604,1260,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-139877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-lakers","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115016281873741338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}