The NBA has released its 2025–26 regular-season headline matchups for NBC, ESPN, Peacock, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The league's first two-game slate includes Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets facing off against reigning regular-season MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Oklahoma City Thunder felt slighted last season when they were left off the NBA’s Christmas schedule. That won’t be an issue this year. MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the NBA champion Thunder will be working at home for Christmas this season,

The 2025-26 NBA season will officially kick off with a pair of marquee Western Conference matchups. The NBA announced on Tuesday that the season will begin on Oct. 21 with a doubleheader on NBC and Peacock.

Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant wrote that his NBA Finals MVP award victories over Stephen Curry "scarred" Golden State Warriors fans in a Sunday post on X.

Kevin Durant spends his hot summer days debating with fans on social media. This time, his relationship with Golden State Warriors fans came into focus. It's been six years since KD last wore the jersey of the team he helped win two NBA titles,

Kevin Durant believes some Golden State Warriors fans remain bothered by him winning NBA Finals MVP in 2017 and 2018.