If the recent meetings between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder proved anything, it's that the latest NBA rivalry officially has been born.

SportsLine's model simulated Dallas Mavericks vs. Golden State Warriors 10,000 times and revealed its 2025 NBA Christmas picks

The Houston Rockets face the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA Christmas Day Game on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025 (12/25/25) at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Calif.

If there was any question as to whether Christmas Day belonged to the NBA, the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers quickly provided an affirmative answer.

We've got a three-leg parlay for Mavericks vs. Warriors centered around the No. 1 pick and a future Hall of Fame point guard

Folks around Arkansas know better than to take a mock draft as gospel, but it never hurts to peek at the latest projections and see

Follow along with live updates on today's Christmas Day NBA action on ABC and ESPN, beginning with Cavaliers-Knicks.

“The NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games,” Barkley, 62, said before the day’s slate of games on NBA Tipoff on ESPN. “We used to have this day to ourself, but [NFL commissioner] Roger Goodell and them pigs at the NFL always want to hog every day of the week now.”