NBA schedule is released: 20 must-watch games this season

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The NBA schedule is out.

The league dropped its full schedule — all 1,230 regular season NBA games — on Thursday. There’s a lot of ground to cover, including who are the schedule winners and losers — the Suns and Clippers have a brutal October and November — but we know the games to circle on the calendar.

Here are 20 must-watch NBA Games this season.

• Oct. 22: New York at Boston. Ring night for the Celtics, but if there is any championship hangover the Knicks — the second-best team in the East last season, one that added Mikal Bridges and is built to challenge Boston — is lurking and looking to announce itself with authority.

• Oct. 23: Phoenix at Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers open their new Intuit dome and bring in Olympians Kevin Durant and Devin Booker to do it. Kawhi Leonard trying to lock down Kevin Durant is always quality basketball.

• Oct. 25: Oklahoma City at Chicago. Alex Caruso makes his return to Chicago, a team that is dearly going to miss his defense. Expect Caruso to get a lot of love from the Bulls faithful. Also, the Bulls clearly forgot to bribe the schedule makers because for Chicago this home game is the second night of a back-to-back after having played Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks the night before. Brutal opening week for Chicago.

• Oct. 25: Indiana at New York. The last time these two teams met, it was in the second round of the playoffs, and the Pacers handled a banged-up Knicks team. This time, New York should be healthy, has Bridges, and wants to get off to a fast start, while the Pacers want everyone to know last season was not a fluke.

• Nov. 2: Miami vs. Washington in Mexico City. The NBA’s annual Mexico City game will highlight the Heat’s Mexican-American Jaime Jaquez Jr. Why we are asking the good people of Mexico City to watch the Wizards is another question entirely.

• Nov. 6: Boston at Golden State. Do you think that Jayson Tatum — glued to the bench much more than he wanted during the Olympics — and Jaylen Brown (not even invited to Paris) want to show Steve Kerr exactly how good they are…

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Publish date : 2024-08-15 20:38:32

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