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The NBA often schedules showdowns between greatest players on Christmas Day, such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James (both pictured) in 2009 and 2010.. The first NBA game played on December 25 came in 1947, a year after the NBA's inception, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75. [1]
The NBA's five-game lineup on Christmas Day delivered against a crowded sports landscape in which the NFL (and Beyoncé) tried to make waves of their own on the Wednesday holiday. Kevin O'Connor ...
The NBA's Christmas Day lineup, as always, has star power. TIM REYNOLDS. December 24, 2024 at 10:41 AM. 1 / 6. ... The Knicks are playing their 57th Christmas game, extending their NBA record. The ...
This is the 17th consecutive season of the NBA having five games on Christmas Day. More often than not — 75% of the time — the No. 1 seeds for the East and West playoffs have been picked for a ...
Curry won his scoring duel with James, going for a game-high 38 points, a majority of which came on eight 3-pointers, tying the NBA record for a Christmas game.
2024 NBA Christmas Day games San Antonio Spurs at New York Knicks, noon ET, ESPN. The Knicks played in the league’s first Christmas games in 1947, beating the Providence Steamrollers 89-61.
The final viewership numbers are in for the NBA's five games on Christmas Day and they were even better than first thought, the league and ESPN announced Monday. An average of 5.335 million ...
Games held by the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Martin Luther King Jr. Day have been an annual tradition since 1986 when it was first observed as a federal holiday (with the exception of 1999 during the 1998–99 NBA lockout). [1] Unlike the more select number of Christmas Day games, more teams participate for that day. [2]