{"id":851471,"date":"2026-08-11T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:40:14","slug":"thunder-tip-off-26-27-season-at-spurs-on-nbc-then-host-nuggets-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851471\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder tip off 26-27 season at Spurs on NBC, then host Nuggets in home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) \u2014 The Thunder will meet two storied foes in their first few games of the 26-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Thunder announced their first game will be against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio on October 20 at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be broadcast on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder&#8217;s home opener will be two days later against the Denver Nuggets at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Thunder faced the Spurs in an epic Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs then went on to the NBA Finals, where they failed to win a championship against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder also have a rivalry against the Nuggets, whom they met in the playoffs two seasons ago. The playoff series came down to the wire, with the Thunder eventually beating them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) \u2014 The Thunder will meet two storied foes in their first few games of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-851471","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\/851471","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=851471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}