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NBA opening night matchups leaked, Sixers to open season Oct. 23 at home vs. Bucks

Schedule season is upon us! We learned last week that the Sixers would play in Boston on Christmas as part of that annual holiday slate. Today, reports started rolling out about who would be squaring off to open up the campaign in October. Our two pairings for opening night on Oct. 22 are as follows:

Opening Night of the 2024-25 NBA season on TNT October 22, per sources:

Knicks at Celtics, ring night
Timberwolves at Lakers pic.twitter.com/RGWFglVZ9F— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 12, 2024

Boston and New York makes perfect sense, pitting the defending champs against a Knicks squad that narrowly missed the Eastern Conference Finals and just made a major move to complete Villanova Voltron by adding Mikal Bridges.