Sep 30, 2025, 01:37 PM ET<\/p>\n
Will reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> and the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> repeat as NBA champions? Will Kevin Durant<\/a> help the Houston Rockets<\/a> get over the hump? How will LeBron James<\/a> fare in season No. 23? Who will be the last team standing in the East? Those are just some of the key storylines of the 2025-26 NBA season. Before the regular season tips off on Oct. 21, fans can catch plenty of preseason action on ESPN’s family of networks and digital platforms. Check out the full slate of games below:<\/p>\n *All times Eastern<\/p>\n Oct. 5, 2025<\/p>\n Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> at Golden State Warriors<\/a> – 8:30 p.m. on ESPN<\/p>\n Oct. 12, 2025<\/p>\n Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> at Boston Celtics<\/a> – 7 p.m. on ESPN<\/p>\n Denver Nuggets<\/a> at LA Clippers<\/a> – 9:30 p.m. on ESPN<\/p>\n Oct. 15, 2025<\/p>\n Dallas Mavericks<\/a> vs. Los Angeles Lakers in Las Vegas – 10:30 p.m. on ESPN<\/p>\n Oct. 16, 2025<\/p>\n Houston Rockets at Atlanta Hawks<\/a> – 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2<\/p>\n How can fans watch?<\/p>\n Fans can catch every basket in the ESPN App<\/a> and in the NBA streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n How can fans access more NBA coverage from ESPN?<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN NBA hub page<\/a> for the latest news<\/a>, features<\/a>, analysis<\/a>, schedules<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 30, 2025, 01:37 PM ET Will reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder repeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-180572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}