Lakers Among Top Travelers in 2025-26 NBA Season…
With the 2025-26 NBA season just a couple of months away, the excitement is already brewing like a cauldron of bubbling basketballs! The Los Angeles Lakers fans are gearing up for a thrilling season, marking their calendars with the juiciest matches, especially since this will be the first full season with Luka Doncic leading the charge. As fans dissect the schedule like a mad scientist with a basketball calendar, one topic that pops up like a jack-in-the-box is the importance of travel. The Lakers will cover a whopping 45,507 miles – that’s more mileage than a superhero on patrol! Despite ranking 10th in travel distance, L.A. will zoom across 47 time zones, which could make any jet lag compete in the Olympics.
The Lakers will embark on 16 road trips, tying them at the 25th least in the league, ensuring that each trip stretches out like a piece of taffy across many miles and time zones. Highlights of the orbit-like schedule include a marathon road trip from January 20 to February 3, where they’ll play teams from Denver to Brooklyn. With those legs, they might have mistaken their travel itinerary for a journey to the center of the Earth! Fans can gear up for how these epic road adventures unfold. So, buckle up, because the Lakers are in for a whirlwind, cross-country hoops odyssey!
