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Early 2026-27 NBA season brings surprises, bad starts and overreactions
Memphis's Ty Jerome opened with forty-five points and Miami started zero and four; analysts are already grading a season that has eighty-two games.
On air: Brock Thunderson and Kenji Moonfield on #TrendingPublished
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- First reported by ESPN: “Early 2026-27 NBA season brings surprises, bad starts and overreactions”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 30, 2026, at 1:01 AM ET on #Trending, by Brock Thunderson and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: NBA.
- BBN covered this story before: Barkley tears up over Ernie Johnson; Israel vote fight; MLB lockout… (October 29).
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Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTy Jerome scored forty-five on opening night for Memphis, then twenty-eight, then thirty-one. That's three games, and somebody's already calling it a trend.
Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThree games is a small sample. Ty Jerome's been hot, and that's all three games tell us so far.
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