The 2025-26 NBA schedule continues to leak out piece by piece, and the latest shoe to drop is the opening night schedules for NBA on ESPN, which will be Wednesday, October 22nd and Thursday, October 23rd, and feature the Nuggets traveling to take on the Golden State Warriors.
The season will open up that Tuesday, the 21st, on NBC, but the Nuggets were snubbed as the opening night doubleheader will feature Rockets at Thunder followed by Warriors at Lakers. But now we know the Nuggets will open their season two nights later on national television.
Not getting one of the Tuesday or Wednesday night games shows that the league is sleeping on Denver, choosing instead to showcase veteran-laden teams that aren’t true contenders in the Warriors and Lakers, and up-and-coming teams like the Mavericks and Spurs.