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LeBron James is scheduled to play in his record 19th Christmas Day game when ... and it is the 17th consecutive season with five NBA games on Christmas. San Antonio Spurs second-year star Victor ...
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] Since then, the NBA has played games every year on Christmas Day except in 1998 (when a lockout canceled half the 1998–99 season).
It's a holiday tradition as American as "Charlie Brown": watching NBA games on Christmas Day.
Five Christmas Day games to unwrap feature familiar All-Stars, rising talents and of course, LeBron James, playing in his 19th game on Christmas.
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.
And neither will play on Christmas Day this year. Bah, humbug. In its defense, the NBA faces the same challenge every summer, figuring out which 10 teams will get the honor — and it is an honor ...
Durant will play on Christmas for the 12th time, and only James, Bryant and Oscar Robertson have more points on Dec. 25 than he does. It's a rematch of a 117-90 win by Denver on Monday night.
Five games, beginning at 11 a.m., will fill the screens on what has become a holiday tradition.