NBA on Sky Sports: Live matches and big moments in 2026/27 — SkimNews
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- Sky Sports will broadcast up to 130 live regular season NBA games plus Conference Finals and NBA Finals matchups for the 2026/27 season, beginning with Opening Night on Tuesday 20 October.
- The Boston Celtics acquired Paul George in a high-profile trade that sent last year's leading scorer Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers, where he joins LeBron James and Joel Embiid for their Opening Night visit to Madison Square Garden.
- Christmas Day features five live games across 12 hours, including a 2026 Finals rematch between Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs and Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks, plus LeBron James' first game as a visiting player in Los Angeles in eight years against the Lakers.
- All-Star Weekend coverage includes the Rising Stars round-robin, the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, the HBCU Classic, the Shooting Stars contest, the three-point contest, and the dunk contest.
- The Play-In Tournament in early April determines the 7th and 8th playoff seeds in each conference from the teams that finish 7th through 10th in the standings.
- The 2027 NBA Finals cap a season of 1,230 regular season games and a potential 98 playoff games; the reigning champion Knicks won their first NBA title in 54 years last season by beating the Spurs in five games.
Why it matters: For UK viewers, Sky Sports' 130-game regular season offering plus every playoff round is the most comprehensive NBA broadcast commitment in recent memory, with the Christmas Day five-game slate and LeBron James' Philadelphia debut giving Sky a marquee promotional hook into the season's biggest windows.
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