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They’ll be stocking the luxury suites and personal wine cellars of the Chase Center with milk and cookies again this year. For the 14th season in a row, Steph Curry and Draymond Green will be working on Christmas Day, as the Golden State Warriors host Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets in the final game of the NBA’s annual December 25th basketball marathon.
The NBA generally tries to showcase the best possible matchups and its biggest stars for the annual event, and for over a decade, that’s meant Steph Curry and the Warriors. Curry himself is 5-7 on Christmas, averaging 18.1 points, though the Dubs have gone 3-0 in Curry-era games where the Baby-Faced Assassin sits.
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The league almost always opens the holiday slate with a game at Madison Square Garden, a rare place where there’s a guaranteed rabid sellout crowd for a noon game on Christmas. This season, they’re making it an NBA Finals rematch, with the Knicks hosting Harrison “The Black Falcon” Barnes and the rest of the San Antonio Spurs. Tobias Harris fans are pumped!
The Boston Celtics host the Miami Heat in the next game, an intense rivalry that shouldn’t change even with Jaylen Brown gone and Giannis Antetokounmpo in South Beach. The annual LeBron James game has his new tea, the Philadelphia 76ers, visiting his old team, the Los Angeles Lakers, which could feature the first time an NBA player even dunks on his own son!
Just kidding, Bronny isn’t going to play.
Then two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder visit the Minnesota Timberwolves in what could be a fun rivalry game but is also slated in the East Coast dinner/West Coast nap slot, traditionally the place reserved for the small-market yuletide game.
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Why does Curry underperform on Santa’s big day, scoring 6.7 points below his career averages? It might be the level of competition, as the Warriors tend to be matched up against other powerhouses on the holiday. It could be that Curry tires himself out wrapping presents for four children, not to mention whatever he gets for Ayesha, Dell, Sonia, Sydel, Damion Lee, David Lee, Kent Bazemore, Gary Payton II, Doc…
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