Cade Cunningham and the Pistons face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first game of our Peacock-exclusive doubleheader at 7 ET.
The NBA debuts on Peacock tonight!
Enjoy the best of an 11-game night across the Association with the NBA.com live blog, as we bring you the top moments, performances, observations, news, notes and highlights.
What we know about Monday night’s games:
Our Peacock doubleheader features Pistons-Cavaliers (7 ET) and Nuggets-Timberwolves (9:30 ET), as rising Eastern contenders and Western playoff rivals clash in the early season.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, averaging a cool 40.0 ppg, leads the Thunder into Dallas to take on Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis and the Mavericks (8:30 ET). Only he and Michael Jordan have put up 120+ points in the first three games of a new season.
Victor Wembanyama has been otherworldly to start the season. Read more about his game below.
Jaylen Brown is questionable for Boston tonight, as are Kristaps Porziņģis for the Hawks and Zion Williamson for the Pelicans.
6:10 PM / OCTOBER 27, 2025
Victor Wembanyama. Need we say more?
Watch out for The Alien. He’s been dominant to begin his third season in the NBA, leading the Spurs to a perfect 3-0 record, which they take into Toronto tonight.
Just look at these numbers:
40 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks versus the Mavericks.
29 points, 11 rebounds and 9 blocks versus the Pelicans
31 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks versus the Nets.
He’s the first player in NBA history to put up 100+ points and 15+ blocks in the first three games of the season.
Only Shaquille O’Neal (1994) and Kevin Garnett (1999) have also tallied 100+ points and 40+ boards in their first three games of the season in the last 50 years.
He’s putting on a show unlike any other other in league history, earning Player of the Week honors for the opening week of the season, along with Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Wembanyama has diversified his offensive game in the new season after working on his post game with the legendary Hakeem Olajuwon over the summer.
He’s leading the league in post-ups per game (5.7) and scoring the second-most points on them (3.7), while also raining threes and slashing to the rim with abandon.
No one in the league makes it look as easy. In the highlights above, track how many different skills Wemby shows — the handles, the shooting, the swats. The sequence at 1:41 is eye-popping.
He denies back-to-back shots, pushes it up the floor after Julien Champagne grabs the loose ball, and pulls up for a 25-foot three that sends Spurs fans into a frenzy.
What will happen tonight?
5:30 PM / OCTOBER 27, 2025
The NBA debuts on Peacock
Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets face off with Rudy Gobert and the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second half of tonight’s debut doubleheader on Peacock, renewing a playoff rivalry.
Streaming coast-to-coast and across the world, the NBA regular season debuts on Peacock for the first time tonight, raising the curtain on a new era of basketball broadcasts.
In the first game of this evening’s Peacock-exclusive doubleheader, Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons travel to Cleveland to face Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley and the Cavaliers.
Cunningham has hit the ground running this season, building on his growing reputation as one of the best all-around offensive engines in the NBA. He’s leading the league in touches per game with 100.7 and averaging 9.0 apg — good for sixth-best in the league — as well as 23.0 ppg.
Cade’s the fuel for a Pistons supporting cast that features a pair of hyper-athletic young wings in Ausar Thompson and Ron Holland III, a bruising lob threat at center in Jalen Duren, and cagey vets, including Tobias Harris and Duncan Robinson.
The team’s combined to lead the league in blocks per game on their way to a 2-1 record.
The Cavaliers also stand at 2-1 — a slight slip from last season, when they opened the campaign 15-0 — but remain a threat to be the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
Mitchell has taken over at point guard with Darius Garland missing time (toe), but continues to get buckets, averaging 30.0 ppg. He’s one of 11 players averaging 30+ ppg during this young season.
In the second game on Peacock, the Denver Nuggets will face off with the Minnesota Timberwolves. While Anthony Edwards will miss tonight’s contest (hamstring), the cores of both squads remain from last year’s bruising seven-game playoff series in the Western Conference semifinals.
The Nuggets won two of the three games in Minnesota during that series — will history repeat itself this evening?
Watch out for Nikola Jokić, who remains a brilliant all-around force and is coming off his second straight triple-double of the season.
He’s the fifth-ever player to open the year with two straight triple-doubles, joining Russell Westbrook (2020-21), Magic Johnson (1981-82, 1982-83), Jerry Lucas (1972-73) and Oscar Robertson (1961-62).
Aaron Gordon has also been on fire to begin the year. He’s shooting a blistering 64.7 percent from three-point range so far.
Check out the complete schedule here.