The Los Angeles Lakers are coming back to the desert to start their 2025-26 season.

The Lakers announced Monday their preseason schedule for the upcoming season, beginning with an Oct. 3 game against the Phoenix Suns at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert. The game is one of four preseason games the Lakers will play, but the only one to be playe in Palm Desert. The team will play two preseason games in Los Angeles and one in Las Vegas.

The Lakers played two exhibition games at Acrisure Arena last fall, both sellouts, one against the Minnesota Timberwolves in which all-time NBA scoring leader LeBron James did not play, and one against the Phoenix Suns where James and his son Bronny James became the first father-son duo to play in the same game.

This October's game against the Suns, pre

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