{"id":364144,"date":"2025-12-23T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:45:08","slug":"christmas-day-to-feature-9-of-nbas-10-most-viewed-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364144\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day to feature 9 of NBA&#8217;s 10 most-viewed players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1968691\" class=\"wp-image-1968691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wemby-doncic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1968691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (right) and Victor Wembanyama rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in NBA social media views for players this season.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s biggest stars continue to move the needle when it comes to attracting fan interest, and Thursday\u2019s NBA Christmas slate will be the latest chance to see them all in action.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s a look at the 10 most-viewed players across <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NBA<\/a> social media platforms this season, nine of whom will be featured on Christmas Day.  The action begins Thursday, Dec. 25 at noon ET on ABC and ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ob2zdg83x\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1Ob2zdg83x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2003495802162020865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 10 most-viewed players across NBA social media platforms this season will be featured on Christmas Day, the league announced on Tuesday. They include Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (845 million views), Victor Wembanyama (708M), Stephen Curry (703M), LeBron James (641M), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (496M), Nikola Joki\u0107 (445M), Austin Reaves (409M), Kevin Durant (331M) and Cooper Flagg (312M).<\/p>\n<p>The NBA on Christmas Day will feature five games across the ABC and ESPN networks, marking the 18th straight year of five games on the holiday. The schedule is Cavaliers vs. Knicks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cle-vs-nyk-0022500009\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noon ET, ABC\/ESPN<\/a>), Spurs vs. Thunder (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/sas-vs-okc-0022500010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2:30 p.m. ET, ABC\/ESPN<\/a>), Mavericks vs. Warriors (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/dal-vs-gsw-0022500011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5 p.m. ET, ABC\/ESPN<\/a>), Rockets vs. Lakers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/hou-vs-lal-0022500012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 p.m. ET, ABC\/ESPN<\/a>) and Timberwolves vs. Nuggets (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/min-vs-den-0022500013\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10:30 p.m. ET, ABC\/ESPN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo (304M views) is the lone player in the top 10 who will not be playing on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (right) and Victor Wembanyama rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in NBA social media views&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,156283,82],"class_list":["post-364144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nba-player-views","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364144","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=364144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}