NBA 2025-26: Durant and Davis returns stand out in calendar
Kevin Durant will return to Phoenix on November 24, while Anthony Davis will return to Los Angeles to play against Lakers on November 28.
Two of the most important return parties of the Regular NBA season 2025-26 They will be played in a single week of November, since The vast majority of the Calendar of the 30 NBA teams was published on Thursday In “NBA Today” of AM850.
November 24, Kevin Durant will return to Phoenix for the first time as a member of the Houston Rockets. A few days later, on November 28, Anthony Davis He returns to Los Angeles for the first time when Dallas Mavericks They face the Lakers in a match of the NBA Cup groups.
Each team already knows 80 of the 82 games that will play this season. The matches of the opening week and those of the holidays, as well as the calendar of groups of the NBA Cup, were announced earlier this week.
He calendar It also highlights the new alliances of the NBA with NBC/Comcast and Amazon, as part of the 11 -year League agreement with these two transmission entities, together with AM850/ABC, which will maintain the NBA ends during the validity of the new agreement.
The return of Durant To Phoenix, who changed the star to Houston in June, will be broadcast on NBC. Meanwhile, Daviswho was changed by Luka Doncic in one of the most shocking transfer in the history of the NBA In February, he will return to Los Angeles by Amazon Prime.
The Lakers and the Mavericks They will face three other occasions this season: January 24 in Dallas; February 12 in Los Angeles; and on April 5 in Dallas.
Talking about the exchange of Doncicon February 1, exactly one year after Lakers They will play at the Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks, just for the exchange to occur shortly after the game took place, these two teams will face once again in the MSG in ABC.
As expected, the current champion Oklahoma City Thunder It also has many important clashes, many of them in the second half of the calendar. While Durant And the Rockets visit Oklahoma City For the Rings delivery ceremony at the opening night (October 21), Houston will also be back in OKC on February 7 (ABC, AM850 Deportes), while the Thunder will make his only visit to Houston on January 15.
He Thunder will first face Minnesota Timberwolvesits rival at the Western Conference Finals, on November 26 (AM850) in Oklahoma City, where they will play again on March 15 (AM850). They play in Minnesota twice: December 19 and January 29.
The four clashes between the star of Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderMVP last season, and Nikola JokicMVP of 2024, of the Denver Nuggetswill be played from February, which will give both players the opportunity to opt for this season’s award. Denver travels to Oklahoma City on February 27 (AM850) and March 9, while Nuggets receive OKC on February 1 and April 10.
That is not the only possible duel for the MVP at the end of the season. The Lakers and the Thunder They face twice in a few days: in OKC on April 2 and then in Los Angeles on April 7.
He Thunder It also has four matches at the end of the season against Clevelandthe favorites of the East Conference: at the Cavs house on January 19; in OKC on February 22 (AM850 Deportes, ABC) and in New York, in the MSG, on March 4 (AM850); In OKC on March 29.
The Knicks and the Cavaliers They will play their first two clashes in New York during the opening week (AM850) and Christmas Day (ABC/AM850/AM850 Deportes), before their last meeting at Cleveland on February 24.
New York It will also receive the resurgence Atlanta Hawks, and the veteran villain of the MSG, Bring Youngfor the first time this season on January 2. The Cavaliersfor their part, they will receive LeBron James in what could be his last game in Cleveland on January 28 (AM850).
