The Brief

Every NBA team will have at least two national TV games this season, the league confirmed Thursday as part of its full schedule unveiling for 2025-26.

The reason: There simply are more national games than ever, now that the league’s new 11-year, $76 billion agreements with ABC-ESPN, NBC-Peacock and Amazon Prime Video are about to formally begin.

There will be 247 games scheduled on those networks this season, up from 172 last season between ABC, ESPN and TNT.

Other notes from this season’s schedule release:

Opening Week

Election Day

The NBA, which did not play on Election Day in 2022, 2023 or 2024, will have games on that date this season. It falls on Nov. 4.

The NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder play the Los Angeles Clippers as part of the six-game slate on that date.

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