{"id":54832,"date":"2025-08-09T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:59:07","slug":"lakers-vs-warriors-game-headlines-nbas-2025-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54832\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs. Warriors Game Headlines NBA&#8217;s 2025 Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ko10opncw\">The 2025\u201326 NBA season tips off on Oct. 21, and ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1953933022660604208\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> reported the two matchups<\/a> highlighted on opening night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bibeanyei\">Up first will be the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder against the Houston Rockets. This will give the Thunder a national stage to celebrate their championship victory from this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0kfvmutpg\">Following that game will be the Golden State Warriors visiting the Los Angeles Lakers, a.k.a. the always highly anticipated matchup between Stephen Curry and LeBron James. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_c420zyqqc\">These two games will be broadcasted on NBC as the network, along with ABC\/ESPN and Amazon. All will <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/new-media-deals-amazon-espn-nbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gain the media rights to the league<\/a> after TNT failed to come to a new agreement with the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_9jgegaw38\">Opening night will likely be when NBA fans first get to witness Michael Jordan work as a special contributor as <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/media\/michael-jordan-to-join-nbc-as-special-nba-contributor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he begins his new role with NBC<\/a> this fall. It&#8217;ll especially be interesting to watch him commentate on James, the player who Jordan is often compared to in the &#8220;G.O.A.T.&#8221; debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025\u201326 NBA season tips off on Oct. 21, and ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported the two matchups highlighted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-54832","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\/54832","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=54832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}