2023-08-11 07:13:08
There is already an official date for the return of the NBA. It will be on October 24, a Monday, with two great matches, as reported by the journalist from The Athletic Shams Charania. A night that will serve for the Nuggets can finally raise the banner to the roof of the Ball Arena in Colorado and receive the rings that consecrate them as champions. Not counting 2020/21, the season after the Disney bubble, the next course will have the latest start since 2017, when the Cavaliers hosted New York on the night of October 25 at the ring ceremony in Cleveland
Because they will be the ones who will open the NBA against nothing more and nothing less than the Los Angeles Lakers, the rival they swept in the last conference finals. The team of LeBron will travel to Denver as part of the opening day that, as usual, arrives on a Tuesday, in order to be broadcast in its entirety on TNT. The chain, in its last year of contract with the NBA, will be one of two in charge of bringing basketball to every home in the United States starting with Nikola Jokic and his companions.
The second shift will be played by two classics and old acquaintances. Kevin Durant’s Suns will visit Golden State, his home for three seasons, to face Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, with whom he finally seems to have made peace. In addition, it will be the debut of Bradley Beal with Phoenix and of Chris Paul in Golden State, with the addition that they were pierced one by the other. Suns and Warriors come out as two of the favorites in the Western Conference, only behind Denver Nuggets, defending champion.
There is also a Christmas menu. Five games on December 25, as usual, in the absence of knowing the schedules and without many surprises. There is the champion and the finalist, the two teams that reached the conference finals, the NBA MVP, and the rest of the stars that may miss the appointment: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry. Almost all contenders for the ring will have to spend December 25 on a basketball court, a tradition as old as the league itself. Only the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard are missing among the ten teams with the most options to win the ring according to the bookmakers, leaving their place for another regular, the Knicks.
christmas day
Bucks @ Knicks
Sixers @ Heat
Celtics @ Lakers
Mavericks @ Suns
Warriors @ Nuggets
The big plate of the cake, the duel between the two most historic franchises in the NBA: Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers They will face each other in California, in a duel that will serve as an attraction. It will be the third time that they see each other at Christmas in the city of Los Angeles, as happened in 1970 and 2008, with two victories for the Lakers. It will be LeBron’s 18th game, widening his difference on one of the most special dates for the NBA. But it will not be the only one-night game that promises, as it usually happens every year, history.
In the East, Giannis will visit Madison Square Gardenthe epicenter of the league while Joel Embiid will spend Christmas night in hot Miami. across the country, Luka Doncic and Kyrie will reignite the rivalry with the Sunsone that comes from 2022 and that does not plan to stop, less with Irving y Durant as rivals. the last meeting, Denver will host the Warriors. The Nuggets have received all the respect they can get as champions, with home games on the first night and on Christmas Day.
Since June 12 there is no party. Almost two months have passed and although we have been able to enjoy formative basketball, the WNBA is about to reach the playoffs and the World Cup begins in two weeks, the NBA already has a return date. And it is reassuring to know that you can now say loud and clear: There are 74 days left for the NBA to start.
Sports journalist covering the NBA from Toronto. Leaving from Barcelona, he has lived in Boston, Sydney and Bogotá before staying in Canada to bring the best basketball league on the planet. All NBA, a bit of basketball, because he grew up with Tracy McGrady and Pau Gasol, but also with Sarunas Jasikevicius and Arvydas Macijauskas. He studied journalism in Barcelona, where he worked in various media and radio stations, and currently also collaborates with Gigantes del Basket and NBA Spain. He was in the NBA finals in which Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka and Sergio Scariolo got their first ring. If you don’t see him here, he’s probably on Twitter. …
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