Christmas day has become a veritable basketball extravaganza in recent years and is considered by many the unofficial start of the NBA season. Last year, the holiday slate featured five games for a total of more than 12 face-melting hours of hoops, which included a couple of barn-burners between the Cavs and Warriors and the Knicks and Sixers. Now, it appears the Knicks might once again be slotted on the schedule, according to a local Philly radio station.
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The Knicks have always been a mainstay of the Christmas day festivities, regardless of the quality of the product they put out there on the floor. Yet, a Knicks-Sixers match-up offers plenty of intrigue. Given the impasse the organization has reached in its efforts to trade Carmelo Anthony, there’s at least a remote possibility that he’s still on the roster at that juncture.
If not, then the team will emphatically belong to Kristaps Porzingis, and who wouldn’t want to see a showdown between him and another super-talented young unicorn in Joel Embiid, not to mention a revamped Sixers roster that appears poised to leave behind its losing ways.
Granted, it’s all rumors and speculation at this point, but it’ll be interesting to see what else the Christmas day schedule has in store for us, beyond the requisite Cavs-Warriors rematch that will surely take top billing.
