The NBA has released its official schedule for the 2023-2024 season. and the New York Knicks open at home against the Boston Celtics who reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season.
Posteriorly, the Knicks face Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers in a back-to-back at home. In all, 12 of the Knicks’ first 16 games are against teams that made Tournament Play-In last season. Eleven of those games are against 2023 playoff teams.
In clashes with his city rival, will face the Nets in Brooklyn on December 20 and January 23 and then they will receive them twice in the last three weeks of the season (March 23 and April 12, penultimate game of the season).
The East River rivalry has an added element this season, as former Villanova and current Knicks teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo take on Brooklyn’s Mikal Bridges.
Knicks have 12 straight games with travel this season. The league average for back-to-backs with travel this year is nine.
In addition, they will have two trips of five games and eight days in a period of five weeks. The second trip ends with a game in Brooklyn on December 20. A tough stretch of the season for Tom Thibodeau’s club.
NBA “special” broadcasts
Christmas Day will again bring five games, all of which will be broadcast on ABC or ESPN. The program starts with the Bucks in New York against Knicks (12 p.m. ET, ESPN), followed by Golden State at Denver (2:30 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN) and Boston at Lakers (5 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN).
Then, in prime time, the 76ers visit the Heat (8 p.m. ET, ESPN), followed by Dallas at Phoenix (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN), with Kyrie Irving going head-to-head with his former Brooklyn Nets teammate, Kevin Durant.
There will be four nationally televised games on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Houston Rockets at Philadelphia (1 pm ET, NBA TV); San Antonio at Atlanta Hawks (3:30 p.m. ET, TNT); Golden State at Memphis Grizzlies (6 p.m. ET, TNT); and the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Lakers (10:30 p.m. ET, NBA TV).
The following week, the NBA will also have “Rivals Week,” with 11 nationally televised games: Knicks-Nets and Lakers-LA Clippers on TNT on January 23; Thunder-Spurs and Suns-Mavericks on ESPN on January 24; Celtics-Heat and Kings-Warriors on TNT on January 25; Mavericks-Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers-Spurs on NBA TV Jan. 26; and Heat-Knicks, 76ers-Nuggets and Lakers-Warriors on January 27 on ABC.
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2023-08-18 01:44:29
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