This error can occur when you had previous code (in drupal 8 f.e.) like this:
$node = $storage->load($nid);
This gives you in drupal 9 the following:
Warning assert cannot load "node" entity with NULL ID
Instead do
if($nid) {
$node = $storage->load($nid);
// rest of the script
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