{"id":855020,"date":"2026-08-12T05:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855020\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:36:20","slug":"lots-more-late-night-nba-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855020\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTS more Late Night NBA Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first game of the NBA’s 2026-27 season that counts will be played at 3 PM ET on Oct. 20: Boston at Detroit.<\/p>\n

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Marc Stein@TheSteinLine<\/p>\n

Three NBA games on Opening Night on Oct. 20:<\/p>\n

Boston at Detroit<\/p>\n

Philadelphia at New York<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City at San Antonio <\/p>\n

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11:43 AM \u00b7 Aug 11, 2026 \u00b7 259K Views<\/p>\n

26 Replies \u00b7 91 Reposts \u00b7 427 Likes<\/p>\n

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If Opening Night actually starts in the afternoon … who says we can’t continue our summerlong tradition of dropping Late Night Intel pieces as we approach mid-August?<\/p>\n

Right. It’s apparently all the table these days. So let’s get to all the latest Intel on free agency and trade matters after midnight ET on a Tuesday because, well, we’re just in that kind of mood.<\/p>\n

Especially after this Monday piece from Jake Fischer covering all the Kawhi Leonard latest with Toronto’s ongoing wait to complete its long-planned trade to reacquire The Klaw:<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Kawhi Leonard latestThe People’s Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aug 10<\/p>\n

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To my notebook \u2026 <\/p>\n

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The Cavaliers continue to be classified as a team to watch when it comes to Nuggets restricted free agent Peyton Watson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first game of the NBA’s 2026-27 season that counts will be played at 3 PM ET on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-855020","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\/855020","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=855020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}