The Lakers and Warriors played on opening night a season ago, but that game, a Warriors win, was played in Los Angeles. This time, as the Warriors are the ...
The Warriors are the defending champions. And sure enough, the NBA is turning to them for a marquee television game yet again this season. LeBron James battling Stephen Curry has been a television staple for the NBA for nearly a decade now.
The first game will be a duel between two of the NBA's biggest superstars, the veteran LeBron James versus the rising Luka Doncic. The second game is a spicy ...
Portland hasn’t played on Christmas Day since 2018, a showdown with the Utah Jazz that ended in a 117-96 loss. The NBA’s Christmas Day slate and opening night ring ceremony always features high-profile, star-driven matchups. Shams Charania of The Athletic also provided early intel into which teams will play on NBA’s opening night.
According to The Athletic's NBA reporter Shams Charania, Warriors-Lakers will be one of the two games that open the 2022-23 season. The two franchises with the ...
In addition, the NBA has also decided to bring together two of its biggest stars: Luka Doncic and LeBron James will face each other in Dallas. It is not be the first time the NBA has staged this match-up on its biggest day. On this occasion the setting will be the Chase Center in San Francisco, with the Lakers the opposition. However, as is always the case, details about a few games on key dates over the course of the campaign are already leaking out.
Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies will take on Steph Curry and the defending champion Golden State Warriors. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will take ...
Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns will take on 2x reigning MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will take on Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies will take on Steph Curry and the defending champion Golden State Warriors.
According to NBA writer Marc Stein, Luka Doncic and the Mavericks will face off against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on December 25. “According to ...
On December 15, in Dallas, the Lakers defeated Doncic in overtime, 107-104. Two of the three meetings between the Mavericks and Lakers last season were decided by five points or less. Eleven years later, Dallas will host another Christmas Day game, and sure, James will be there once more.
8 mins agoThe Christmas Day schedule has become something of a rite of passage for many players and fans of NBA teams alike. Marc Stein reports that two ...
5 hours agoThe Christmas Day schedule has become something of a rite of passage for many players and fans of NBA teams alike. More Player News from RotoBaller There are three games still to be announced, but the rollout of games for both Opening Night and Christmas Day is an indicator of how close the season is to getting underway.
To settle down agitated basketball fans, the league has revealed the ring ceremony schedule for opening night. The LeBron James-led Lakers will visit the Chase ...
Rudy Gobert was traded to Minnesota and Royce O'Neale to the Nets while Joe Ingles is heading to Milwaukee. Meanwhile, Mike Conley is about to be 35-years-old and isn't expected to be around for a rebuild. Adding Poole to the mix will make them instant playoff-contenders and get them out of the lottery spots. Poole made several long-range bombs in the 2022 NBA Finals and had numerous great outings in the playoffs. The Magic are building a team around Paolo Banchero, Jalen Suggs, the Wagner brothers and other youngsters. The Westbrook saga has been ongoing ever since the offseason began because it appears as if no team is interested in his services. They were spotted backstage at a Travis Scott concert and were working out together in Barcelona. Additionally, there is a lot of chatter regarding Durant's trade to Philadelphia. ESPN's Ramona Shelburne reported: Durant was one of the captains of the 2022 NBA All-Star Game when he intentionally refused to pick Harden for his team. The relationship between Kevin Durant and James Harden was visibly rough after the latter forced his way out of Brooklyn last year. James’ Heat jersey retirement is anticipated to take place upon his NBA retirement." He is the only player in the NBA to have his jersey number retired league-wide, joining NHL's Wayne Gretzky (#99) and MLB's Jackie Robinson (#42). 6 for the LA Lakers, the same number he wore during his Miami Heat days. The LeBron James-led Lakers will visit the Chase Center and play the Golden State Warriors after Steph Curry and co.
In another marquee showdown between LeBron James and Steph Curry, the Warriors will host the Lakers on Opening Night this season.
After up-and-down seasons in the last two years, THT will have to establish himself as either a promising young player or one that is going to struggle to meet his potential. It feels like a bit of bluffing from the Lakers to say “Yeah, we have lots of deals. But once that moves come, it could be a precursor for the Lakers to finally move Westbrook, according to Dan Woike of the LA Times. There's little point in trying to actually extract anything from these games — he had a decent showing in last year’s Pro-Am as well — but here are the highlights of his performance. In an ideal world, it would serve as some sort of motivation for the Lakers but the franchise has provided very little reason to have that type of faith. The two stars of their generation have long been tied to one another and LeBron’s move west has rekindled that rivalry.
The NBA's schedule will release in full this week, but we've had all five Christmas Day matchups slowly get reported.
Given that the opener and closer of the Christmas Day slate are usually ESPN games, with the three in the middle on ABC, this feels like a pretty safe bet for what the schedule will look like. 10:30 p.m. ET: Suns at Nuggets 5:00 p.m. ET: Lakers at Mavericks
Despite the 2022-23 NBA Schedule has not yet been released, there are reports related to the Christmas Day games scheduled for this season.
Also, James Harden posted on Twitter a possibly matchup for the Philadelphia 76ers on Christmas Day. "Christmas in the garden!" However, there is a lot of skepticism about the reason why is taking so long to the National Basketball Association to release it. The 2022-23 NBA Schedule is set to be released in the coming weeks, as the last season's schedule was released on August 20.
Christmas Day is, without a doubt, one of the biggest nights of an NBA season. Every year, the league schedules the best teams for the best possible ...
In Denver, the Nuggets will host the Suns for a showdown between two Western Conference powerhouses. In the East, there are a few exciting matchups. Christmas Day is, without a doubt, one of the biggest nights of an NBA season.
There will be five games on the NBA Christmas Day schedule in 2022, sources confirmed to The Athletic. Shams Charania · @ShamsCharania. ·. Follow. Sources: NBA's 2022 Christmas Day schedule: Bucks at Celtics 76ers at Knicks Suns at Nuggets Lakers at ...
the New York Knicks and the Phoenix Suns vs. The Philadelphia 76ers vs. 76ers at Knicks
The Lakers are reportedly scheduled to play the Warriors on opening night and the Mavericks on Christmas.
They played on Christmas in 2019 as well, and when the Orlando bubble kicked off in the summer of 2020, they played in the venue's opening night. If he isn't? This will be one of our first looks at a new-look Lakers team eager to re-enter the championship picture. If Westbrook is still a Laker when this game is played, the Clippers will be favored.
The NBA schedule for the upcoming 2022-23 season hasn't been released yet, but there have been a few leaks in terms of big matchups.
The Purple and Gold usually host a contest on that holiday, but this time, the team will travel to Texas to take on Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. Christmas Day is a huge marquee day for the NBA, much as Thanksgiving is for the NFL, and the Lakers have always been a fixture of yuletide NBA basketball. This always seems to be standard fare in the NBA, where a few matchups, such as those on opening night and on Christmas Day, will be leaked before the entire schedule is released to the public.
According to Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium, the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, ...
That will feature one of the greatest players ever (James), and one of the future faces of the NBA (Doncic). The next matchup will likely be one of the more anticipated ones as LeBron James and the Lakers visit Luka Doncic and the Mavs in Texas. They do a very good job marketing the day, and they always make some of the best matchups.
The NBA's Christmas Day schedule is set, with the five-game slate featuring eight playoff teams plus the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers.
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Although not yet official, we know the five matchups expected to take place on NBA Christmas Day.
The third reported game on this list may be a preview of the Western Conference finals as the Nuggets play host to the Suns. Denver should be fully healthy with Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. expected to be back in the starting lineup after both players missed all of last season with injuries. In what was one of the best playoff series a season ago, the Bucks lost to the Celtics in seven games, all without their second-best player in Khris Middleton who suffered an MCL sprain in the first round of the postseason. Though the Lakers and Mavericks don't have the playful trash-talking the Warriors and Grizzlies possess, it will feature the face of the league in LeBron James, and one of the future faces of the league in Luka Doncic. These two teams met on Christmas two seasons ago, which resulted in the Mavericks getting blown out in Los Angeles, but a lot has happened since that dud of a matchup in 2020. When the Warriors eventually won the championship, several Golden State players made sure to take some not-so-subtle jabs at the Grizzlies, including Draymond Green and Ja Morant hoping their two teams meet on Christmas Day. Well, Green and Morant got their wish, and that matchup will surely be a highly anticipated one. As one of the most important days on the NBA's calendar, these games are typically star-studded and sometimes feature rematches from the previous year's playoffs or pit two of the league's top stars against each other. It's already been reported the reigning champion Golden State Warriors are expected to host LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on opening night of the season, which is set for Oct. 18.
This year's Christmas Day slate features five nationally televised games that should bring plenty of excitement.
TBD Based on these reports, the NBA is, as usual, loading up on the stars. Every year since the league's biggest teams, brightest stars and best up-and-coming players have faced off on the holiday.
The NBA Christmas Day game schedule will not feature the top seeded East team.
Is the reason because Miami’s NFL counterpart, the Miami Dolphins, are playing on Christmas Day as well? Why watch two squads that just recently battled in a six-game playoff series, with a rivalry brewing? Denver has the reigning two-time league MVP, Nikola Jokic, which justifies their inclusion; the Lakers have LeBron James, that’s more than enough; but the Knicks? Really? Again?