The NBA launched its 2025-26 regular-season schedule Thursday, revealing the dates of marquee matchups and highlighting its new three-pronged media rights deal.
This would be the first season of an 11-year settlement that sees NBCUniversal and Amazon get in on the NBA motion alongside ESPN, with Turner Sports activities’ TNT out of the image.
The NBA’s nationwide broadcast schedule with these new companions was revealed. It options video games on ABC, NBC and Peacock on Sundays; Peacock alone on Mondays; and NBC and Peacock on Tuesdays. ESPN will carry nationwide broadcasts Wednesdays and Fridays, ABC will add video games on Saturday and Prime Video will function on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Thanksgiving week will function a pair of star forwards visiting their previous digs for the primary time. Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets will play on the Phoenix Suns on Nov. 24, Durant’s first time going through Phoenix following an offseason commerce.
Then, on Nov. 28, the Dallas Mavericks will go to Los Angeles to mark Anthony Davis’ first sport on the Lakers because the blockbuster deal that includes him and Luka Doncic buying and selling uniforms.
Some marquee video games already have been recognized, together with the opening evening doubleheader on Oct. 21 (Rockets at Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, Golden State Warriors at Lakers) and the five-game slate on Christmas Day.
NBC will carry the Oct. 21 doubleheader, whereas ESPN will get in on the motion Oct. 22. The brand new-look Mavericks and No. 1 draft decide Cooper Flagg will play host to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs that day after the Cleveland Cavaliers open the season on the New York Knicks.
The Boston Celtics dealt Jrue Vacation to the Portland Path Blazers this offseason. Portland — which additionally introduced again longtime star guard Damian Lillard — will go to Boston on Jan. 26.
As for the Lakers, it stays up within the air whether or not LeBron James will play past this season, his twenty third within the league. His ultimate journey to his hometown Cavaliers is scheduled for Jan. 28.
Every staff realized of 80 of its 82 regular-season dates Thursday. The opposite two video games shall be decided by the outcomes of the in-season NBA Cup. — Area Stage Media/Reuters
