AUGUST 8, 8:10am: The Rockets will host the Thunder to round out the Christmas Day schedule, tweets ESPN’s Tim MacMahon.
AUGUST 7, 8:02pm: Some of the more popular games of the 2018/19 NBA schedule will be announced tomorrow at 2:00pm EST. At that time, the NBA will announce the schedule for the opening week of the 2018/19 regular season along with the slate of games for Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
However, Marc Stein of The New York Times is already reporting matchups for three of the Christmas Day games. The Celtics will play the Sixers, the Knicks will host the Bucks, and the new-look Lakers will travel to Oakland to take on the Warriors. Chris Haynes of ESPN is also reporting that the Jazz will host the Trail Blazers.
This will be the fourth consecutive season that a LeBron James-led team will face off against Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, and the Warriors. James’ Cavaliers teams went 1-2 against Golden State over the last three seasons.
Well I suppose my Hawks vs. Magic guess was a bit too out there.
Comedy gold
Lebron is going to get slaughtered in front of a National audience. Nice!!!
Like the finals haven’t been on national tv?
:D
At this point he has to be used to it.
I hope they pick San Antonio/Toronto or Suns/Clippers
Knicks-Bucks? There has to be a better option than that
You ever seen Giannis in the Garden?
I like watching the UCLA with the Greek Freak. Too bad P will be out.
Wish they would release the schedule earlier. NBA really makes you wait. Far longer than most sports
Season ended like a month ago sheesh.
Releasing it 2 months before the season starts is a pain for people who want to travel and watch their team
Charlotte and Memphis are the only teams never to play Christmas Day. Why not just give them a head to head game? Or how bout Hornets-Heat and Grizz-Spurs.
It should be San Antonio and Toronto.
Good one!
The lakers are gonna get crushed lol
Great choice Lakers V GSW, who cares anyway who wins is only a RS game, not the playoffs. Also Philly v Boston is great, always good to see Giannis too, though they could do better than NYC, I supose they needed one weak game that is why they chose Utah, they could get a better team to play Portland, right?
I’ll get to watch “LeFlop” get demolished on Christmas Day, while playing on another one of his mediocre handpicked teams?!? It’s gonna be a Merry Christmas! Lol.
The only problem w Knicks v Bucks is no unicorn. Knox better be good, otherwise itll be a crapshoot.
Wow! No Rockets. They only had the best record in the league last year.
This is excusable when the article hasn’t been updated but “August 8th, 8:10 AM: The Rockets will host the Thunder to round out the Christmas Day schedule.” Your comment was posted at 8:53…
To be fair, his comment (7:53 CT) actually came a little before our update (8:10 CT).
Luke dropping facts!
Thanks for having my back, Luke!
AKA “LeBron loses to Warriors again”
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