{"id":55834,"date":"2025-08-09T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:26:11","slug":"nba-releases-christmas-day-schedule-and-opening-night-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55834\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Releases Christmas Day Schedule and Opening Night Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">The 2025-26 NBA season is still over two months away, but fans now have an idea of which teams will be on national television during two marquee days of action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Here&#8217;s a look at the schedule for both the Opening Night and Christmas Day slate of games:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/1953933022660604208?s=46&amp;t=c_BHyNOi1S7-VkvIaQwbHg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Opening Night<\/a>, October 21<\/p>\n<p>Houston Rockets at Oklahoma City ThunderGolden State Warriors at Los Angeles Lakers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1953931824054317292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christmas Day<\/a>, December 25<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Cavaliers at New York KnicksSan Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City ThunderHouston Rockets at LA LakersDallas Mavericks at Golden State WarriorsMinnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Opening night will see Kevin Durant head back to Oklahoma City with his new team, and watch his former team raise their NBA championship banner. The other game will see Stephen Curry and LeBron James play against one another in another star-studded Western Conference class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Then, on Christmas, there&#8217;s a rematch of the 2024 Western Conference Finals with the Nuggets hosting the Timberwolves. Also, Cooper Flagg and the new-look Mavs head to San Francisco to take on Curry and the Warriors. The lone Eastern Conference matchup will see the Cavs head to Madison Square Garden for a date with the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a> and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NBA.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"National Basketball Association\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the National Basketball Association Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 NBA season is still over two months away, but fans now have an idea of which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-55834","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\/55834","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=55834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}