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SHOCKING: Ten nba trends at the 2024 25 season quarter mark - What They Never Told You

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Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown reacts after a basket. The defending champs are humming in the early going. | David Butler II-Imagn Images

Football may be king on Thanksgiving weekend, but the 20-game mark serves as a useful checkpoint for NBA teams. Trends become part of a roster’s identity and statistical oddities are no longer outliers as everything begins to crystalize for players, teams and the league.

Here are 10 early-season story lines of the 2024–25 NBA campaign.

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