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ESPN and ABC Unveil Blockbuster NBA Opening Week and Christmas Day Broadcast Schedules for 2025-26 Regular Season  ESPN Press Room Sources: Warriors-Lakers highlight opening night  ESPN Thunder-Rockets, Lakers-Warriors headline ‘NBA Tip-Off’ on NBC  NBC News THE NBA RETURNS TO NBC AND DEBUTS ON PEACOCK WITH “NBA TIP-OFF” DOUBLEHEADER ON TUESDAY, OCT. 21  NBC Sports NBA Christmas Day, Opening Night games feature Lakers, Warriors, Thunder: …

• Download the NBA App Coming this week… the 2025-26 NBA Schedule! Tune in to Good Morning America and The TODAY Show on Tuesday morning — then stay tuned for more throughout the week — as the NBA Schedule Release presented by Ticketmaster begins. The regular-season schedule will include dates and opponents for 80 of each team’s 82 games, along with …

Arizona police on Friday released new details about the fatal May drowning of influencer Emilie Kiser’s 3-year-old son, including allegations that her husband placed a $25 bet on an NBA playoff game before the tragic incident. Brady Kiser, the husband of the parenting influencer, was home with the couple’s two sons while his wife was out with friends on May …

2K and Visual Concepts are looking for graphical improvements with every new NBA 2K game and the upcoming iteration of the series is no different. A new shader allows NBA 2K26 to portray things like sweat on athletes’ bodies and dehydration leading to small cracks forming on their lips. The stitching on uniforms will be visible, giving names and numbers …

The first NBA game on NBC in 23 years will feature the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder against perhaps their chief competition in the West, and the Cleveland Cavaliers are back on Christmas Day for the first time since the LeBron James era, league and network sources confirmed to The Athletic on Friday. The Rockets, who finished second in the …

The Boston Celtics are trading forward Georges Niang to the Utah Jazz, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported. The Celtics sent two second-round picks alongside Niang and received rookie guard RJ Luis Jr. in return, per Charania. Boston then signed former Toronto Raptors forward Chris Boucher to a one-year, $3.3 million deal, his agent Sam Permut told Charania. The Jazz can use …

NBA 2K’s ProPLAY tech, which drives the NBA 2K26’s PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 versions, received a major upgrade in the form of the ProPLAY Motion Engine. Using real-world NBA footage as a model, the engine has completely overhauled how players move on the court. According to the developers, this will reduce the phenomenon of players “skating” …

Sometimes, a public affairs officer at the Department of Justice gets to reach deep into their bag and write a press release with some literary flourish. Wednesday’s announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California is one such case: “Former NBA Star, Suspected Israeli Crime Figure Arrested on Federal Indictment Alleging High-Stakes Illegal Poker Games at …

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI …

Germany’s Uber Arena will serve as host for the The NBA Berlin Game 2026 on Jan. 15, 2026. • Download the NBA App• NBA.com/EuropeGames LONDON — The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that the Memphis Grizzlies and the Orlando Magic will play regular-season games in Berlin on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, and in London on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.  The …