Wazzup Pilipinas!
The National Basketball Association (NBA) will
tip off its 71st season on Wednesday, Oct. 26 with three games on
opening night. The NBA Champion
Cleveland Cavaliers will host the New York Knicks at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by
the second game, the Portland Trail Blazers will host the Utah Jazz at 10 p.m.
ET. For the third game, the San Antonio
Spurs will visit the Golden State Warriors at 10:30 p.m. ET for a matchup of
the teams with the league’s best records last season.
Here is a preview of the opening night
matchups:
New
York at Cleveland: The Cavaliers will receive their
championship rings before facing the new-look Knicks, who added former Kia NBA
Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose and former Kia NBA Defensive Player of the
Year Joakim Noah in the offseason. Jeff
Hornacek will make his head-coaching debut with New York. Cleveland’s Tyronn Lue will coach his first
regular-season opener after taking over as head coach last January and leading
the Cavaliers to their first NBA title in franchise history. Four-time Kia NBA MVP LeBron James of
Cleveland opens the season needing 114 points to pass Hakeem Olajuwon for 10th
place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
Utah at
Portland: The
Trail Blazers, who have won an NBA-record 15 consecutive regular-season home
openers, feature one of the NBA’s best backcourts in two-time All-Star Damian
Lillard and 2015-16 Kia NBA Most Improved Player CJ McCollum. The two guards led Portland to its third
consecutive playoff appearance last season.
The Jazz, looking to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2012,
added veterans Boris Diaw, George Hill and Joe Johnson in the offseason to
complement a promising young core.
Utah’s Gordon Hayward, who averaged a team-high 19.7 points last season,
will miss the game with a finger injury.
San
Antonio at Golden State: Kevin Durant will make his debut with the
Warriors, who signed the four-time scoring champion and 2013-14 Kia NBA MVP
after a league-record 73-9 season and a loss to Cleveland in The Finals 2016. Durant joins two-time reigning Kia NBA MVP
Stephen Curry and fellow All-Stars Draymond Green and Klay Thompson to give the
Golden State a potent offense. The Spurs
will have a new look with six-time All-Star Pau Gasol at center in place of NBA
legend Tim Duncan, who retired after 19 seasons with San Antonio. Spurs coach
Gregg Popovich has a 17-2 record in regular-season openers.
Below please find the NBA broadcast
schedule in the Philippines on Oct. 26
·
New York Knicks at Cleveland Cavaliers, Wednesday,
Oct. 26 at 7:30 a.m. on NBA Premium TV
·
Utah Jazz at Portland Trail Blazers, Wednesday,
Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. on Basketball TV
·
San Antonio Spurs at Golden State
Warriors, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 10:30 a.m. on ABS-CBN S+A and NBA Premium TV
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