On Monday afternoon, The Oklahoman’s Darnell Mayberry dropped an interesting National Basketball Association schedule nugget one day before the 2015-16 National Basketball Association schedule is set to release. They defeated Magic in 2011, New York in 2013 and San Antonio in 2014. They even opened the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season with a Christmas Day tilt in Los Angeles, where Derrick Rose hit a game-winning floater with seconds remaining.
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For the sixth consecutive season Oklahoma City Thunder will be featuring in the league’s biggest showcase, Christmas Day slate, this time at home. The franchise’s only defeat on the auspicious day was at Miami in 2012.
This will also be Chicago’s only visit to the Chesapeake Energy Arena this upcoming season (barring a trip to the National Basketball Association Finals for both teams).
Thoughts: This would be an awesome setting for the Bulls on Christmas Day. San Antonio also landed two-time All-Star David West in free agency.
The Thunder are expected to debut with a healthy Kevin Durant who missed practically the whole of last season together with Russell Westbrook who is coming off a stellar year. Durant told The Oklahoman last week that his surgically-repaired right foot is healed and he has been cleared for all basketball-related activities.
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The Bulls are additionally scheduled to play the defending National Basketball Association champion Warriors in November on the primary of three prolonged journeys, this one to make approach for the circus on the United Middle. Donovan won two national championships at Florida.
