The Boston Celtics will get their NBA championship rings on Oct. 22, and the rival New York Knicks will be there for the celebration.
The league’s 2024-25 schedule was released Thursday, and the season-opening matchup has the Knicks visiting Boston as the Celtics reveal the championship banner for the franchise’s record-setting 18th NBA title. Boston capped the 2023-24 season by beating the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals in mid-June, winning the best-of-seven series in five games and breaking free of the Los Angeles Lakers for the most titles in league history.
The second game on opening night has the Minnesota Timberwolves visiting the Lakers, a reunion of Olympic gold medalists for the U.S. men’s basketball team from the recent Paris Games as the Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards faces off against the Lakers’ LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
The league released 1,200 of the 1,230 games on the schedule Thursday; the other 30 will be slotted in December, depending on how teams fare during the NBA Cup. The schedule for those in-season tournament games was released Tuesday.
Some regular-season contests outside of the NBA Cup had been previously announced, such as the Miami Heat and Washington Wizards playing in Mexico City on Nov. 2, as well as the Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs playing two games in Paris on Jan. 23 and 25, with the main attraction being Spurs star and France native Victor Wembanyama, now not only the reigning NBA rookie of the year but an Olympic silver medalist.