The videogames for the mostsignificant day of the NBA’s regular-season calendar are supposedly set.
On Christmas Day, the safeguarding champ Golden State Warriors will play host to the Memphis Grizzlies, the Milwaukee Bucks and Celtics will face off in Boston, and LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will head to Texas to face Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks, The Athletic’s Shams Charania and others reported in current days.
Also, two-time protecting MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets will play host to the Phoenix Suns and the Philadelphia 76ers will play the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Two of the Christmas Day videogames are rematches from this past postseason. The Warriors beat the Grizzlies in 6 videogames in the Western Conference semifinals in May, though Memphis star Ja Morant didn’t play in the last 3 videogames of the series. Players from both groups engaged in a Twitter back and forth in the days following Golden State’s NBA Finals win, with Morant asking the league to face the safeguarding champs on Christmas.
Green likewise appeared thrilled, tweeting “That’s the power of your voice Young! Let’s goooo! Bring the fam to the babycrib for supper after.”
The Bucks-Celtics videogame is a rematch of the Eastern Conference semifinals series that went 7 videogames, which Boston won.
The Lakers-Mavericks videogame will mark the 2nd time in the past 3 seasons the 2 groups have played each other on Christmas. Los Angeles won in 2020.
Phoenix and Denver fulfilled in the playoffs in 2021, which ended in a sweep for Devin Booker and Chris Paul’s Suns. The Nuggets didn’t have Jamal Murray for that series though and must have him back by the start of the routine season.
The 76ers-Knicks videogame will be the veryfirst Christmas videogame for the Joel Embiid–James Harden duo, while it’ll be the 55th for New York, an NBA record. Harden expressed enjoyment about the reported videogame on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Hawks star Trae Young relatively revealed dissatisfaction that his group isn’t on the reported slate, tweeting out numerous emojis proving his displeasure.
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