NBA 2026-27 season predictions: A Knicks repeat and LeBron’s villain arc

Our writers give their verdicts on the new season, which tips off Tuesday. Can the Spurs or Thunder thwart a New York repeat? And which youngster will make the superstar leap? Our writers give their verdicts on the new season, which tips off Tuesday. Who will claim the title? And which youngster will make the superstar leap? Seeing all the fruits borne of an incredible summer of player movement. It feels like three years ago that Giannis Antetokounmpo was traded to the Heat, because since then, Jaylen Brown and LeBron James went to the 76ers, and a ton of other deck chairs were reshuffled.

This is the most intriguing NBA opening week in eons. Claire de Lune Washington and Utah clawing their way out of the doldrums. Both have been in perpetual poverty for almost half a decade. Both now surround young cores of switchy, two-way wings with playoff-tested veterans like Anthony Davis and Jaren Jackson Jr. Lee Escobedo The NBA’s great chemistry experiment. After a summer in which Antetokounmpo landed in