2026 Los Angeles Lakers Media Day Live Updates, Top Quotes and Reactions

Andy Bailey

Sep 28, 2026, updated 48 min ago

The long summer is over. The NBA is back. And the 2025-26 Los Angeles Lakers are here to talk all about it at media day.

As Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves, Walker Kessler and the rest of the Lakers field questions from reporters, analysts and content creators, we'll be here to break it all down throughout the day.

How does the team look without LeBron James? Is Kessler ready to prove worthy of the big trade package it took to get him? Is this team a title contender? What did the team trip to Slovenia do for chemistry?

Answers to those questions and more, from the Lakers themselves, can be found below.

Live Updates

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08:06 AM

Who'll Round Out L.A.'s Starting Five?

A few days ago, Rob Pelinka and JJ Redick spoke to the media about the upcoming campaign, and the topic of the starting lineup came up.

Dončić, Reaves and Kessler are obvious calls for three of those spots, but it sounds like Redick has some work to do to determine who the starting forwards will be.

Thursday, he quipped about the likelihood that those fourth and fifth starters will, well, look like the three in stone.

Now, "the other two spots will not be two white guys" was obviously said, at least in part, in jest. But if we take the other part seriously, it bodes well for Quentin Grimes and maybe even Collin Sexton for a smaller lineup.