{"id":55443,"date":"2025-08-09T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:16:12","slug":"rockets-open-up-2025-2026-nba-season-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55443\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets open up 2025-2026 NBA season vs. Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The full NBA schedule won\u2019t be released until next week, but ESPN released the Opening Night and Christmas Day games yesterday, and the Houston Rockets have both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">First, on October 21, the Rockets will travel to Oklahoma City to face what is likely to be one of their biggest competitors this year in the defending champion Thunder. This is likely to be the early game, as the second Opening Night game is between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors in L.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rockets also got picked for the one of the NBA Christmas Day games. For this one, the Rockets will be on the road again, this time at the Lakers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45927979\/rockets-thunder-warriors-lakers-open-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to ESPN<\/a>, there are a total if five games on Christmas Day. They are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So that\u2019s a solid slate of NBA games on Christmas, and we won\u2019t have to wait long to find out if the new KD Rockets can hang in the west. That road game vs. OKC is definite early-season measuring stick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019m sure the Rockets will have some more national TV games once the full schedule is released, but you know we\u2019ll be here for all of them either way, and we\u2019ll be back next week with more schedule highlights once the full schedule is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full NBA schedule won\u2019t be released until next week, but ESPN released the Opening Night and Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,45902,85],"class_list":["post-55443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-rockets-schedule","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55443","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=55443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}