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Here is the NBA’s 2024 Christmas Day schedule: San Antonio Spurs at New York Knicks, noon ET, ESPN Minnesota Timberwolves at Dallas Mavericks, 2:30 p.m. ET, ABC
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]
Five marquee matchups are scheduled for the holiday. Christmas Day NBA games, for many, are when fans start to pay […] The post NBA Christmas Day games preview appeared first on TheGrio.
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It's a holiday tradition as American as "Charlie Brown": watching NBA games on Christmas Day.
Games held by the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Martin Luther King Jr. Day have been an annual tradition since 1986 when it was first observed as a federal holiday (with the exception of 1999 during the 1998–99 NBA lockout). [1] Unlike the more select number of Christmas Day games, more teams participate for that day. [2]
All-Stars and title-contenders are well-represented in the Christmas Day games: Hawks-Knicks, Celtics-Bucks, Warriors-Suns, Nets-Lakers and Mavs-Jazz. NBA announces Christmas Day schedule. Here's ...
In fact, since 1947, there has only been one season when the NBA has not played at least one game on a Christmas: the 1998-99 season, which began in February because of a lockout.