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Two of the biggest days of the year in the NBA<\/a> regular season are opening night and Christmas Day, and Friday we learned the matchups we will see on both nights, courtesy of ESPN’s Shams Charania.\u00a0<\/p>\n Opening night schedule<\/p>\n The NBA will send the new-look Rockets, featuring Kevin Durant<\/a>, to Oklahoma City for ring night to open the season, and then finish the night off with one more opening night tilt between LeBron James<\/a> and Stephen Curry<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n All four of those teams will also participate in the Christmas Day festivities, along with six other teams that get the honor of playing on the NBA’s biggest day.\u00a0<\/p>\n Christmas Day schedule\u00a0<\/p>\n The Knicks and Cavs matchup (presumably in the noon ET timeslot the Knicks host annually) will be the only game featuring Eastern Conference teams. That’s not a shock given the injuries to top teams in the East, but is a representation of how tilted the balance of power is — at least on paper — for the 2025-26 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kevin Durant not expected to get contract extension offer ‘close to the max’ from Rockets, per report<\/p>\n \n Robby Kalland <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Victor Wembanyama<\/a> once again gets a Christmas Day slot, this year against the reigning champs in OKC, while the Rockets will visit the Lakers.\u00a0Cooper Flagg<\/a>, Anthony Davis<\/a> and the Mavs will head to the Bay to face Golden State, and Anthony Edwards<\/a> and Nikola Jokic<\/a> will face off in Denver in what figures to be the nightcap.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s a strong slate of games on paper and features a nice mixture of rising stars and the veterans who have been carrying the torch for decades. We’ll get the official schedule announcements for all 82 games soon enough, but for now fans can start looking ahead to two of the biggest days on the regular season schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Two of the biggest days of the year in the NBA regular season are opening night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[14727,36999,49,48,2357,2597,2695,2898,8217,8223,6695,2327,8231,14102,459,2901,5725,3555,2696,82,13596,21217],"class_list":["post-55492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55492","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=55492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kevin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/durant.jpg\")
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