Top rookies will square off, with No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg facing No. 2 pick Dylan Harper and All-Star Victor Wembanyama in an opening-week contest between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs. Former Rutgers teammates Ace Bailey and Harper will face off in December when the Utah Jazz play the Spurs. Meanwhile, James will embark on his record-breaking 23rd …
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NBA announces schedule for 2025-26 regular season
• Download the NBA App The NBA has released its full schedule for the NBA 2025-26 season. • Complete list of games• Emirates NBA Cup games• National TV games• League Pass games NEW YORK – The NBA today released its complete game schedule and broadcast and streaming schedules for Disney (ABC/ESPN/ESPN Radio), NBCUniversal (NBC/Peacock) and Amazon (Prime Video) for the 2025-26 regular season. As part of …
Read More »Denver Nuggets being sued by their mascot in NBA stunner
Rocky the Mountain Lion roared back at the Denver Nuggets. The man behind the suit, Drake Solomon, is seeking unspecified damages from Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Nuggets, for an alleged violation of disability protection laws. The Colorado Sun reported this week that Solomon was diagnosed with a bone tissue condition, avascular necrosis, during the 2022-23 season, and …
Read More »NBA approves sale of Boston Celtics to Bill Chisholm for record $6.1 billion
BOSTON (AP) — The NBA on Wednesday unanimously approved the sale of the Boston Celtics to a group led by private equity mogul Bill Chisholm, a deal that values the franchise at more than $6.1 billion — the largest ever for an American professional sports team. The league said the transaction is expected to close shortly. When it does, Chisholm …
Read More »2025-26 Opening Night, Christmas and NBA Cup schedules officially unveiled
The 2025-26 NBA Schedule Release presented by Ticketmaster tipped off on Tuesday with Opening Night on NBC, Opening Week on ESPN and Peacock, the NBA on Christmas Day slate on ABC & ESPN, and the MLK Day games on NBC & Peacock. The schedule release continued on Wednesday with the unveiling of the Emirates NBA Cup Group Play schedule across …
Read More »Tom Dundon Group To Buy Trail Blazers, Keep NBA Team in Portland
Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon has reached a tentative agreement to buy the Portland Trail Blazers from Paul Allen’s estate, according to people familiar with the details. Others in the group include Blue Owl Capital co-president Marc Zahr and Portland-based Sheel Tyle, co-CEO of Collective Global, according to the people, who were granted anonymity because the details were private. The …
Read More »Luka Doncic and 2025-26’s Biggest NBA Pressure Cookers
NBANBAFrom Luka Doncic to literally the entire Cleveland Cavaliers organization, here’s who will be feeling the heat heading into 2025-26 Getty Images/Ringer illustration By Michael PinaAug. 13, 12:40 pm UTC • 10 min Everyone in the NBA is affected by pressure. The league is slippery, competitive beyond measure, and filled with people who would do anything to get ahead. Of …
Read More »THE NBA RETURNS TO NBC AND DEBUTS ON PEACOCK WITH “NBA TIP-OFF” DOUBLEHEADER ON TUESDAY, OCT. 21
NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder Host Kevin Durant and Houston Rockets on Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET followed by LeBron James and Los Angeles Lakers Hosting Stephen Curry and Golden State Warriors at 10 p.m. ET – Both Games on NBC and Peacock On-Site Coverage from Oklahoma City Begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on …
Read More »NBC sets new details of NBA return
Two days out from the full NBA schedule release, NBC announced several details of its NBA return — including its announce teams for Opening Night. NBC announced Tuesday that Mike Tirico, Reggie Miller and Jamal Crawford are scheduled to call the network’s first NBA game in more than 22 years, Rockets-Thunder on Opening Night October 21. Noah Eagle and Grant …
Read More »NBA Reveals Opening Week, MLK Day Matchups
The NBA unveiled a little more of its 2025/26 regular season schedule on Tuesday, two days ahead of the release of the full schedule. In addition to confirming the opening night and Christmas Day matchups previously reported by Shams Charania of ESPN, the league announced several more games from the first week of the season, along with a four-game slate …
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