All Things Basketball with GD - 2023-24 NBA Full Schedule

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode NBA schedule the full schedule is out guys so I'll talk all about it.

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The opening week I'll talk about the end season tourney.

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I'll talk about the Christmas games, MLK day games, your all star weekend, your rivalry

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week, everything guys.

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I break it all down.

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I talk about each team's national schedule as well so just sit back, relax and enjoy

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the show.

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Okay guys so it's your boy GD back once again with all things basketball with GD podcast

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and right about this time going to go through and I talked about it the last episode I was

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waiting for it and lo and behold the next day it comes out and that's the full NBA schedule

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so we have that so I'll just go through it.

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Let's get into it shall we.

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The season will begin October 24th on a Tuesday and now be the start of the opening week and

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this is how it starts.

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The very first game of the NBA season the LA Lakers going to Denver to face the world

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champion Denver Nuggets and that's a 730 game on TNT so the Lakers you know a lot of promise

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a lot of people are looking to the Lakers to take that next step this coming season

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so they'll be there in the building to see the banner raised up for the Denver Nuggets

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then be in the world champions them getting their rings and all that good stuff so Lakers

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will be in the building for that hoping to spoil their night so it'll be the Lakers taking

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on the Denver Nuggets followed by the Phoenix Suns going to the Golden State Warriors to

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play Steph in the Warriors so that should be and now be at 10 o'clock all of this is

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on TNT guys so TNT will have your first night so you'll hear from of course the great Ernie

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Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaq and also Kenny Smith in studio of course so that is your

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opening night and then Wednesday night October 25th you have 12 games on the schedule included

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in those 12 games the Boston Celtics will be at the New York Knicks they'll play them

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at 7 o'clock and that's followed by Dallas playing at San Antonio so you will see the

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Victor Wimbayama his pro debut as an NBA player so you'll see that game and that game starts

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in 930 so and both games will be on ESPN so there you'll have of course there in studio

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team which will be Mike Greenberg, Stephen A. Smith, let's hope the Knicks get a win

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otherwise he'll be win in the first night of the season then there'll be no Jalen Rose

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because of course he was let go amongst that bevy of talent that was let go by ESPN but

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they are replacing him with Bob Myers I hear so he'll be in the studio as well as Michael

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Willbaum and then of course you'll be hearing the debut of the new number one team and that's

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Mike Green and your analysts are Doris Burke and Doc Rivers so you'll get to hear the number

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one team that night not sure which game they'll be calling I imagine they'll be calling the

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Boston New York game so that is Wednesday night guys Thursday you have two games on

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the slate Philadelphia 76ers going to Milwaukee to face the Bucks that's at 730 and then the

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nightcap is Phoenix still on the roll but they go to the Lakers this time so and I didn't

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really mention the new look Phoenix Suns now that you have Kevin Durant for the full season

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you brought in Bradley Beale you still have a Devin Booker so that's your new look oh

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and also Deandre Aitman is still on board so that's your new look Phoenix Suns with

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new coach Frank Vogel by the way and again they'll be at the Los Angeles Lakers to face

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LeBron AD and those Lakers and that is on TNT so you get another night of TNT Friday

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evening 11 games on the schedule including the Miami Heat going to Boston to face the

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Celtics remember this was a matchup in the playoffs and then Golden State they will go

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to Sacramento to face the resurgent Sacramento Kings who had a fabulous year last season

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and the Boston Miami game is at 730 the Golden State Sacramento game at 10 and that be on

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ESPN and then Saturday you have seven games on the schedule included in those the Knicks

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going to the New Orleans Pelicans that's at 7 o'clock followed by the Utah Jazz Laurie

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Markovim and those guys going to the Phoenix Suns and that's at 10 o'clock but for those

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games by the way will be on NBA TV so you have that so that's your opening week right

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there guys.

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N-season tournament you have the N-season tournament that will take place it starts

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on November 3rd on a Friday and it carries through to Tuesday November 28th.

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Here's how it works guys there's 30 teams divided into six divisions three divisions

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per conference of course two conferences and within those conferences you have five teams

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now it's not like your regular alignment of teams they sort of shuffled the teams around

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a bit in this N-season tournament so you have some teams grouped up that normally is not

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but it's still within the same conference.

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There will be four games played two at home and two on the road for each team and from

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that four game slate at the end you'll have the top eight teams advancing to the next

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round which is the quarterfinals so it'll be eight teams four from each conference it'll

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be the three division winners and then one wild card team how they determine that we'll

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see my whole question is what happens if everybody's like two and two then what happens but what

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do I know.

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Anyway so that's going to be how it shakes out guys and then once coming out of that

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you'll have the quarterfinals that'll take place over two days December 4th and then

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December 5th your semi-finals two days later on the 7th and then your championship game

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will be on December 9th.

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Now I know a lot of the folks out there are like oh do we really need this N-season tournament

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uh well you know people complained about the playing games and actually it's now well

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received so always on the surface somebody's going to say something about something new

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I mean we'll see what happens but let's hope that scenario I just pointed of every team

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being two and two when all is said and done doesn't take place.

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That is your N-season tournament guys.

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Then you have like they did last year there'll be no games played on election day this is

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the second year of them doing that and an effort to make sure everyone you know has

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the opportunity to exercise their right to vote.

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Global games there'll be two global games guys Atlanta taking on the Orlando Magic and

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I'll be in Mexico City that's going to be a 930 tip off and that is on November 9th

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and then in January January 11th to be exact the Brooklyn Nets will take on the Cleveland

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Cavaliers and that game will take place in Paris and it'll be at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard

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Time so you have two global games on the schedules guys.

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Let us move on to Christmas Day you have your normal five games slated for that day starting

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off the day will be the Milwaukee Bucks going to Madison Square Garden to face the Nicks

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that's at 12 noon that'll be on ESPN.

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Then you have the next game Golden State going to the Denver Nuggets and that's a

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230 game and that'll be on both ABC and ESPN so you can go to Iva Network and the game

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will be there.

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That game will be followed by Boston at the Los Angeles Lakers long time rivalry guys

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as long as I can remember at least going back to the 60s for crying out loud so this is long

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time rivalry will be front stage on Christmas Day.

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Five o'clock also on both networks ABC and ESPN and then at eight o'clock in the evening

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the Philadelphia 76ers going to South Beach to face the Miami Heat that's at eight o'clock

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on ESPN and rounding out the day the Dallas Mavericks will go to the Phoenix Suns so

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you'll have Kyrie versus his buddy Kevin Durant so that'll be at 1030 at night on Christmas

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Day guys so that is your five games for Christmas.

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Martin Luther King Day which is January 15th 11 games slated for that day guys and four

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of them on national TV you have the San Antonio Spurs of course Victor Wimbayama he'll be

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at the Atlanta Hawks Atlanta Hawks usually have the home game that day being that Silver

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Rights icon Martin Luther King was based in Atlanta so Atlanta usually has the home court

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for that day and that's at 330 guys followed by Golden State at Memphis.

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In the Grizzlies by that time you'll have Jabham Ram back in the fold and both games

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are on TNT guys so that's your games there and then also on NBA TV you'll have two games

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one in the day one in the night the Houston Rockets will be at the Philadelphia 76ers

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that's a one o'clock game and then the Oklahoma City Thunder later in the evening at 1030

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will be at the Los Angeles Lakers so Oklahoma City Thunder which I'm predicting they should

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be an upstart team for next year they got into the play-in last year so I'm expecting

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them to take a step forward and they'll be at the Lakers like I said 1030 on NBA TV.

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Then you have rivalry week rivalry week takes place Tuesday January 23rd and it goes through

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Saturday January 27th the games on schedule that first night Tuesday evening you'll have

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the Knicks at Brooklyn to face the Nets that's usually kind of a Knicks home game if the

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Nick Fafel are able to infiltrate the Barclay Center and that game will be at 730 followed

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by the Los Angeles Lakers actually visiting I'm using air quotes the Los Angeles Clippers

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who occupy the same building as of this moment and that game is at 10 o'clock and that'll

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be on TNT so both games both has local flavor and they'll be on TNT guys.

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Wednesday night you'll have the Oklahoma City Thunder at the San Antonio Spurs which

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should be a good one because you'll have Chet Holmgren who remember he was out with the

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Torn ACL last year he's he'll be back for this season so you have a battle of the skinny

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guys with Holmgren versus Wimbayama that should be an interesting game that's at 730 followed

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by the Phoenix Suns at Dallas so you'll have Kevin Durant taking on his buddy Kyrie but

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this time it'll be in Dallas and that's at 10 o'clock both games on ESPN by the way guys

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then Thursday evening you'll have the Boston Celtics at the Miami Heat you know that's

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a long-standing rivalry there going back to the days of LeBron and the Big Three going

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against Boston's Big Three of KG Paul Pierce in Reale.

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So that game is at 730 followed by Sacramento Kings going to Golden State to face the Warriors

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at 10 o'clock and of course that was a first round matchup in the playoffs this past season

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and both of those games are on TNT.

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Friday evening you'll have the Dallas Mavericks at the Atlanta Hawks remember draft day they

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made the Trey Luca Donkage going to Dallas and Trey Young going to Atlanta so this is

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a bit of a rivalry so to speak in that regard.

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That game is at 7 followed by the Portland Trailblazers at the San Antonio Spurs that

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used to be a rivalry at one time not so sure now but nonetheless they're calling it that

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and that's at 930 both games on NBA TV and then Saturday you'll have your three game

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slate that's on ABC starting with Miami Heat taking on the New York Knicks at Madison Square

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Garden at 3 o'clock of course this was a matchup in the playoffs this past season.

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Follow that by the Philadelphia 76ers at the Denver Nuggets remember last season actually

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the Denver Nuggets came to Philadelphia and that's when Joel M. B. put on a show this

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time it's the reverse it'll be Joel M. B. going to the My High City to take on Nikolai

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Jokic and the defending champs the Denver Nuggets that's at 530 and then later at 830 you'll

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have the LA Lakers and they'll be at Golden State to face the Warriors and that was a

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matchup from last season in the playoffs so all those again on ABC and that actually starts

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the Saturday night games on ABC that they have in the evenings so you'll have a game

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per night after this weekend there.

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So that's that bit of business as far as the rivalries go and then you have All-Star Weekend.

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All-Star Weekend will be February 16th through the 18th and of course the All-Star game on

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Sunday the 18th.

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Friday of course is usually the Young Stars you'll have that game there which they actually

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turn into kind of a round robin sort of deal now so and then Saturday night of course you

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have all the events the skills challenge the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest

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as well so so that is your All-Star Weekend and then the last day of the season that'll

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be on Sunday April 14th you'll have seven games for the Eastern Conference that start

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at one o'clock and then you follow that up with seven games of the Western Conference

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at 330 and one Inter-Conference game where a team from the East plays a team from the

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West but that game will be at 330 as well.

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ESPN will have a double header that day to be determined depends on of course the races

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up until the last day of the season so it's all dependent on that so you'll have more

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likely than not a Eastern Conference game first followed by a Western Conference game

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unless that Inter-Conference game is something of interest so that in the nutshell guys is

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your NBA schedule I did want to break down the national games you know what let's do

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it I'm gonna break down the national games who got how many so on and so forth and when

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I say national games guys I mean as far as TNT ESPN ABC and NBA TV I consider NBA TV

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national because mostly everyone has NBA TV pretty much so with that said let's get into

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it the team with the most games on national television is not the Lakers the Golden State

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Warriors the Golden State Warriors have 40 games on the schedule to be shown nationally

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including a game on December 22nd with this team coming into the building the Washington

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Wizards at 10 o'clock on ESPN why is that game of significance that will be Jordan's

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pools return to Golden State that'll be a very interesting game guys a lot has been

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said of course Draymond who can't shut up about it he goes on that big podcast but that

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should be a game of definite interest guys again Golden State has 40 games on the schedule

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for national viewing then as followed by two teams tied for second place the LA Lakers

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of course you can't have a season without the oversaturation of the Lakers but I digress

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of course any team with LeBron you're gonna have eyeballs on him so 37 games for them

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the Phoenix Suns are the second team with 37 games they have 37 games scheduled to be

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on national TV two of which I'll talk about they'll be at Brooklyn on January 31st on

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ESPN 730 that game is of interest because Kevin Durant makes his return back to Brooklyn

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to the Barclays Center so it'll be interesting what kind of reception he gets there and

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then the second game of national interest will be when the Phoenix Suns go to Washington

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to face the Wizards of course Bradley Beale the long time Washington Wizard will be making

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his return back to Washington so I expect a warm reception it wasn't like he requested

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a trade and said get me out of here that should be of interest and that game is on

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February 4th then after that you have the Boston Celtics the East team with the highest

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amount of national games and they have 35 of them guys so they have 35 games that will

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be shown nationally and then the next team actually they're both tied are the Denver

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Nuggets the defending champions and then the Milwaukee Bucks both with 30 games now guys

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this is the defending world champion 30 games I guess that's fine but of course you know

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it's underneath the Gold State Warriors the Lakers and the Suns I get it I understand

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those teams are of a bit more interest the Denver Nuggets pretty boring kind of like

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the San Antonio Spurs of today not real flash but they get the job done so the Denver Nuggets

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they'll have 30 games Milwaukee Bucks have 30 games then that's followed by the Philadelphia

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76ers have 29 games one that's of major interest March 27th they will host the LA Clippers

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I'd say it's of interest it is going to be on ESPN at 730 because it's possible James

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Harton could get dealt there if that's the case it'll be the Clippers coming to Philly

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and they'll be on national TV sold that could be of interest provided the Sixers deal him

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to the Clippers so then you have the Dallas Mavericks a non-playoff team guys 28 games

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to be shown nationally which I thought was pretty high given how they finished out but

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I guess the networks are understanding that the pairing of Luca and Kyrie you will hope

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they play a lot of games you hope both are healthy and can manage through and the team

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can improve that way we'll see what happens didn't really do that much in terms of the

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size that they're lacking but he still didn't resign Christian Wood so I'm not sure what

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to make of that but nonetheless they have 28 games the game of interest February 6th

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at Brooklyn and that will be Kyrie going back to Barclay to face the Nets and that's a 730

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tip off on TNT so TNT has that one then we move on to two teams tied with 25 appearances

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on national TV the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat I'll talk about the Knicks later

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because I'm going to do a separate podcast episode on the Knicks schedule because I wanted

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to break it down to a fine powder so but let me talk about Miami Miami has 25 games as

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I said the game of interest and it's on February 27th it'll be at Portland 10 o'clock on TNT

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why is it of importance because perhaps by this time you have dealt well Portland has

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dealt Dame Lillard to Miami I guess they're giving them self wiggle room just in case

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Dame still ends up staying with Portland until they can work out a deal with Miami and maybe

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it takes until the deadline maybe that's why this matchup is this late but nonetheless

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it's on TNT guys so also a game of interest you have the Miami Heat both of their games

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against the Nuggets the team they played in the NBA Finals both were on TV guys you have

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a February 29th game and that's at Denver 10 o'clock on TNT and then a few weeks later

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March 13th Denver goes to South Beach to play Miami 730 on ESPN so then they're followed

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by the Sacramento Kings and the LA Clippers tied at 22 appearances on national TV Sacramento

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Kings getting some props here guys and you know to the victor goes to spoil so now you

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get to see them nationally 22 times so kudos to Mike Brown and the Aaron Fox DeMonte Sabonis

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and all those guys over there and then the LA Clippers of course you have Kawai you have

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Paul George over there Russell Westbrook so of course that's going to get some eyeballs

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so they're both tied for 22 appearances then after that you have the San Antonio Spurs

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with 19 games on national television basically the reason is they have Victor Wimbayama who's

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everybody's predicting is going to be this Mercurial talent so they're going to want

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to get eyeballs on him so you already see his debut is a national game so there's that

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one another game that I think is of interest will be I think I mentioned it already they

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face Chet Holmgren that's going to be a nationally televised game and then on January 12th versus

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the Charlotte Hornets Charlotte of course they were the second pick in the drafting

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pick Brandon Miller so you got the number one versus the number two on this night 10

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o'clock ESPN has that game then they're followed by the Cleveland Cavaliers who have 16 games

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on national TV follow that by the Atlanta Hawks with 15 games to be seen on national

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TV and that is followed by the Memphis Grizzlies the Memphis Grizzlies I think they took the

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biggest hit of anybody in terms of this national TV scheduling 14 games guys 14 games for

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a team that was all by the way the second ranked team in the Western Conference right

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behind the Denver Nuggets so they're at 14 games nationally behind the likes of a San Antonio

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behind the likes of a Dallas Mavericks both teams that didn't make playoffs yeah so they

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took a big hit but and of course it's because of the job Morant suspension and this is how

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it breaks down guys of the 14 games there's only four games prior to job suspension 10

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games after he comes back the game that'll be of interest of course is the February 4th

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game and that's at Boston at 6 o'clock on ESPN why because Marcus Smart will make his

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return to the Boston area to play his longtime team the Celtics so that should be I think

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he gets a positive response that evening he's a longtime Celtic homegrown and it's not like

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he acts out he was part of that trade to get poor thing is so I think they'll give him

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a warm welcome on that evening so then you have the New Orleans Pelicans 12 games for

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them of course the hopes is that Zion is healthy so you have that dynamic and then follow that

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up with 11 games for OKC who was a play in team and the Brooklyn Nets was an actual playoff

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team so they get kind of dissed but again this league is all about star power right

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now your head guy is Mikhail Bridges a very nice player definitely a very nice player

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but it doesn't ooze out star power so thus only 11 games for the Nets and OKC of course

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like I said they have the game against the San Antonio Spurs 7 o'clock on TNT and that's

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on November 14th and that's actually part of the end season tournament guys so that's

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a game of really big interest and then also February 13th they'll be at the Orlando Magic

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so this will be a battle of 1 and 2's for the 2022 draft where Paulo Boncaro he went

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number one Chet Holmgren went number two so you'll have a battle of those guys 730 TNT

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then we have the Minnesota Timberwolves only nine games for them guys their first national

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game comes December 20th and that's at Philadelphia to face the Sixers 730 on NBA TV oh also tied

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for nine appearances is the Utah Jazz Utah Jazz will have nine appearances on national

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TV that is followed by the Chicago Bulls who will have seven appearances Indiana has six

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as well as Portland they have six games that'll be shown nationally their first national game

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is on December 20th so you wait a while before you see them on national TV and that's a game

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at home versus the Washington Wizards so that should be a good one it's on NBA TV and then

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you have the Orlando Magic with five games on national TV I mentioned one of them already

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where they're facing OKC on February 13th and then you have four teams with just four

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appearances the Houston Rockets their first nationally televised game December 21st no

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I'm sorry their first one is actually after Christmas December 26 guys and they're facing

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Indiana at eight o'clock and that's on NBA TV you also have Toronto with four games the

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Toronto Raptors the Washington Wizards and of course we know the one game that's going

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to be televised and that's the Jordan pool back to Golden State game and then you have

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the two bottom teams the Charlotte Hornets and the Detroit Pistons both with four games

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Charlotte's first game December 26 and that is at the Clippers 1030 NBA TV and Detroit

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Pistons four games first one on national TV November 29th and that is versus the LA Lakers

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and that game is on NBA TV alright guys so that's going to do it for this episode oh

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one more game for the Detroit Pistons that'll be on TV that's of great interest January

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12th versus the Houston Rockets 730 on ESPN it'll be a battle of the twins that was in

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this past draft a SAR Thompson will be taking on his brother Armin Thompson of the Houston

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Rockets so that's a nationally televised game as well guys so alright that's going to do

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it for that that's your NBA schedule in a nutshell guys when I come back I'll be doing

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the next schedule breaking it all down guys alright a lot going on here the schedules

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out thankfully so we can kind of get a read on what's happening as far as record wise

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kind of gauge and predict and do all those things so alright guys so once again I thank

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