Yes. Two of the best NBA days of the year prior to the playoffs are Opening Night (and the home opener, if not one and the same) and Christmas Day.
Opening Night is cool because you are so excited for the season to start that you don’t really care about work or school or whatever for a day, whereas Christmas Day games are cool because (ideally) you don’t have to go to work or school or whatever. In both cases, on both days, you (me) spend a lot of time thinking about the NBA and watching it.