{"id":854167,"date":"2026-08-13T20:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:30:17","slug":"raptors-to-open-season-against-visiting-bulls-host-knicks-on-back-to-back-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854167\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors to open season against visiting Bulls, host Knicks on back-to-back nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Raptors&#8217; Scottie Barnes (4) drives past Chicago Bulls&#8217; Matas Buzelis (14) during second half NBA basketball game action in Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jon Blacker<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 13, 2026 | 2:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Raptors will open the upcoming NBA season at home for the 14th time in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced its full 2026-27 schedule on Thursday, and the Raptors will kick things off Oct. 21 against Chicago at Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s first road game comes two days later at Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Notable home games include back-to-back matches against the reigning champion New York Knicks on Nov. 15 and 17, and a visits from Victor Wembanyama\u2019s San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 10 and Canadian star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors&#8217; Scottie Barnes (4) drives past Chicago Bulls&#8217; Matas Buzelis (14) during second half NBA basketball game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-854167","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\/854167","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=854167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}