{"id":68892,"date":"2025-08-09T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:10:07","slug":"warriors-to-play-lakers-on-opening-night-mavericks-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68892\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors to play Lakers on opening night, Mavericks on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Warriors are expected to be prominently featured on two of the NBA\u2019s biggest days.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will open the season on Oct. 21 at the Los Angeles Lakers, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania. The game will be the second of a double-header broadcast on NBC, the first NBA games the network has aired since the last game of the 2002 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Steph Curry-led Warriors are also reported to be playing against the Mavericks on Christmas day. Dallas recently selected Duke\u2019s Cooper Flagg with the first pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The full NBA schedule, which is traditionally released in mid-August, is expected to be made public next week.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the Warriors tip off against LeBron James and the Lakers, the team will likely have come to some sort of resolution in the Jonathan Kuminga situation. The 22-year-old forward is an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors, which have almost $140 million in salary going to the Big 3 of Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler, remains the only team to not make a single transaction since the start of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Warriors are expected to be prominently featured on two of the NBA\u2019s biggest days.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,3805,2356,2243,10831,2558,355,99],"class_list":["post-68892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}