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The Lakers 2024-25 schedule was released Thursday and features a softer end to the team's Grammy road trip and a Christmas holiday game close to home. Lakers 2024-25 schedule includes Christmas in ...
The NBA released a five-game Christmas Day schedule for its 75th anniversary season on Tuesday, highlighted by a showdown between the superstar-studded Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers.
The Los Angeles Lakers had appeared in ABC's featured Christmas Day game every season from 2002 to 2016 (against the Sacramento Kings in 2002, the Houston Rockets in 2003, the Miami Heat in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010, the Phoenix Suns in 2007, the Boston Celtics in 2008, Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009, the Chicago Bulls in 2011 and 2014, and the ...
The NBA often schedules showdowns between greatest players on Christmas Day, such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James (both pictured) in 2009 and 2010.. The first NBA game played on December 25 came in 1947, a year after the NBA's inception, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75. [1]
That reportedly adds up to a viewership increase of 84% against last year's Christmas. The biggest game of the day was predictably the one between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors ...
Albert (himself a former Knicks broadcaster) and Steve Kerr called the game. TNT normally aired NBA Christmas Day games only if it falls on a Thursday (except during the 2011–12 season). However, TNT announced that they would air a Christmas Day game on December 25, 2017 (a Monday) featuring the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers host Brooklyn in a Christmas Day game that will be missing stars Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. LeBron James is set to play. Lakers-Nets Christmas game lacks star power ...
In the NBA Finals, the Celtics were again the Lakers' final hurdle. Los Angeles lost game one of the NBA Finals by a score of 148–114, in what is remembered as the "Memorial Day Massacre". [123] The Lakers, behind 38-year-old Finals MVP Abdul-Jabbar, recovered to defeat the Celtics in six games. [124]