{"id":24990,"date":"2025-08-14T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/durant-vs-phoenix-and-davis-in-la-nba-reveals-key-matchups-in-2025-26\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:27:37","slug":"durant-vs-phoenix-and-davis-in-la-nba-reveals-key-matchups-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/durant-vs-phoenix-and-davis-in-la-nba-reveals-key-matchups-in-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant vs. Phoenix and Davis in LA: NBA reveals key matchups in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Reunions Marked on the NBA 2025-26 Calendar<\/h2>\n\n\nThe NBA&#8217;s 2025-26 regular season schedule has been revealed, promising high emotions with several games that stand out for the return of emblematic players to their former courts. Alofoke Deportes brings you the details of these unmissable matches.\n\nThe week of November 24th to 28th will be key, with two particularly attractive duels. On November 24th, Kevin Durant will return to Phoenix, now as a player for the Houston Rockets. On November 28th, Anthony Davis will return to Los Angeles, but this time defending the colors of the Dallas Mavericks, facing the Lakers in an NBA Cup game.\n\n80 of the 82 games that each team will play this season are now known, including those of the opening week, holiday games, and the NBA Cup schedule. These events highlight the league&#8217;s new collaborations with NBC\/Comcast and Amazon, as part of the 11-year agreement with these entities and ESPN\/ABC, who will maintain the broadcast of the NBA Finals.\n\nDurant&#8217;s return to Phoenix will be broadcast on NBC, while Davis&#8217;s return to Los Angeles can be seen on Amazon Prime.\n\nThe Lakers and Mavericks will face each other three more times during the season: January 24 in Dallas, February 12 in Los Angeles, and April 5 in Dallas.\n\nFurthermore, on February 1st, exactly one year after a game between the Lakers and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, where a trade was finalized, both teams will face each other again on the same stage, in a game that will be broadcast on ABC.\n\nThe current champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, will also have several important games, many of them in the second half of the season. Houston will visit Oklahoma City for the ring ceremony on opening night (October 21), and will return on February 7. The Thunder will play in Houston on January 15.\n\nThe Thunder will face the Minnesota Timberwolves, their Western Conference Finals rival, on November 26 in Oklahoma City and March 15. They will face each other twice in Minnesota, on December 19 and January 29.\n\nThe four matchups between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Thunder star and last season&#8217;s MVP, and Nikola Jokic, 2024 MVP of the Denver Nuggets, will take place starting in February, giving them the opportunity to prove their worth for this season&#8217;s award. Denver will play in Oklahoma City on February 27 and March 9, while the Nuggets will host OKC on February 1 and April 10.\n\nAnother MVP showdown could happen at the end of the season, as the Lakers and Thunder will face each other twice in a few days: April 2 in OKC and April 7 in Los Angeles.\n\nThe Thunder will also have four important games against the Eastern Conference favorites, Cleveland, on January 19 and February 22, and against New York, on March 4 and March 29.\n\nThe Knicks and Cavaliers will play their first two games in New York during opening week and on Christmas Day, before a final matchup in Cleveland on February 24.\n\nNew York will also receive the Atlanta Hawks, with Trae Young, for the first time this season on January 2. The Cavaliers, for their part, will receive LeBron James in what could be his last game in Cleveland on January 28.\n\nThe calendar also includes other notable returns of star players.\n\nMyles Turner, who has played for the Pacers during his first 11 seasons in the NBA, will return to Indiana on November 3 as a Milwaukee Bucks player.\n\nBrook Lopez, new center for the LA Clippers, will make his only visit to Milwaukee on March 29.\n\nDesmond Bane, traded by the Grizzlies to the Orlando Magic in June, will visit Memphis on January 18th.\n\nIn consecutive games at the end of that month, the Boston Celtics will host two key players from their championship team who were traded this summer. Jrue Holiday and the Portland Trail Blazers will visit Boston on January 26, while Kristaps Porzingis and the Hawks will do so on January 28.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Reunions Marked on the NBA 2025-26 Calendar The NBA&#8217;s 2025-26 regular season schedule has been revealed, promising high emotions with several games that stand out for the return of emblematic players to their former courts. Alofoke Deportes brings you the details of these unmissable matches. 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