{"id":54101,"date":"2025-08-08T23:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54101\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:54:06","slug":"sources-rockets-thunder-warriors-lakers-to-open-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources — Rockets-Thunder, Warriors-Lakers to open NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN<\/p>\n

Aug 8, 2025, 06:08 PM ET\"Copy<\/a>Email<\/a>Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n

The opening night of the 2025-26 NBA season will feature the Houston Rockets<\/a> at the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and the Golden State Warriors<\/a> at the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Friday.<\/p>\n

The games will be played on Oct. 21 and will be televised on NBC.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there will be five games on ABC on Christmas, sources said. They are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> at New York Knicks<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 San Antonio Spurs<\/a> at Thunder<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rockets at Lakers<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dallas Mavericks<\/a> at Warriors<\/p>\n

\u2022 Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> at Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Aug 8, 2025, 06:08 PM ETEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions The opening night of the 2025-26 NBA season will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-54101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}