The NBA’s biggest day of the regular season is Christmas Day, which oftentimes features the most important regular-season games of the year. Beyond that, the league has done its best to give hoops fans as much basketball as it can on another holiday: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year, the league will copy its formula from Christmas and give us a rematch of the last three NBA Finals on MLK Day.
Thanks to today’s release of the league’s full schedule, we learned that the Cleveland Cavaliers will play host to the Golden State Warriors for the first (and only) time during the 2017-18 regular season on Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. It will air on TNT, and is going to highlight a fascinating day of basketball. Here’s the league’s entire slate that day:
- Charlotte Hornets vs. Detroit Pistons (12:30 p.m., NBATV)
- Toronto Raptors vs. Philadelphia 76ers (1 p.m.)
- Milwaukee Bucks vs. Washington Wizards (2 p.m.)
- San Antonio Spurs vs. Atlanta Hawks (3 p.m., NBATV)
- New York Knicks vs. Brooklyn Nets (3 p.m.)
- Sacramento Kings vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (3 p.m.)
- Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls (3:30 p.m.)
- Los Angeles Lakers vs. Memphis Grizzlies (5:30 p.m., TNT)
- Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (8 p.m., TNT)
- Indiana Pacers vs. Utah Jazz (9 p.m.)
- Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Clippers (10:30 p.m., TNT)
While Cavs-Warriors is obviously the day’s marquee game, there are still some really interesting matchups on the schedule. For example, the Bucks-Wizards game could feature two of the Cavaliers’ biggest threats in the Eastern Conference, while the Rockets-Clippers game will mark Chris Paul’s first game back in Los Angeles against his former team.
