It is anticipated that key players will once again take center stage, with defensive anchors, top playmakers, and scoring leaders all receiving attention.

For the first time since 2002, NBA basketball will air on NBC. If you were a ’90s kid, John Tesh’s iconic “Roundball Rock ” was the soundtrack of your basketball-watching experience, the perfect melodic intro that remains synonymous with hoops.

Let’s not overthink this one. Houston has Kevin Durant, the original “unicorn,” a singularity of backcourt smoothness and center’s size. San Antonio has Wemby, the apotheosis of Durant’s promise and the NBA’s go-to highlight generator. Together, these two can do quite literally anything previously committed to hardwood floor.

The NBA season tips off on Tuesday, October 21st, with four of the top teams in action, before the rest of the league debuts in the days that follow.

The NBA returns to Mexico when the Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons meet in the NBA Mexico City Game 2025 on Nov. 1. It marks the 34th NBA game played in Mexico – this will be the 15th regular-season game, along with 19 preseason games – as the country has hosted the most NBA games outside of the United States and Canada.

For one night, the Nikola Jokic jerseys had some competition at Ball Arena. You could tell from the moment No. 5 in white checked into the game that this wasn’t a typical visitor’s welcome in the Mile High City.

With the NBA expanding pro basketball outside of the United States and Canada, more and more games are taking place overseas to court fans from different countries. The league now travels to Mexico for NBA Mexico City Game.

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