After leaks throughout the week, the National Basketball Association officially released the schedule for all 30 teams for the upcoming 2024-25 season. The schedule features numerous must-see matchups that Dub Nation should mark their calendars for. Including Klay Thompson’s return to The Bay and a visit from ‘The King’ on Christmas day. Golden State is slated for 36 nationally televised games, second only to the Lakers for most in the NBA.

Season Opener

The Golden State Warriors open up the 2024-25 campaign on the road on Wednesday, October 23 at the Moda Center in Portland. This marks the first year since 2014 that the Warriors will not be one of two games played on the Opening Night of the NBA season, that will take place the night prior.

Home Opener

Following two games on the road to open up the season, the Dubs return to Chase Center on Sunday, October 27 to face the Los Angeles Clippers. The Warriors get their first crack at their Pacific division rivals after an offseason where both teams bid farewell to respected stars.

Golden State was rumored to be in serious talks with the Clippers for a sign-and-trade deal for all-star wing Paul George, but ultimately fell through, and George winded up signing a max deal in Philadelphia. George later confirmed on his podcast that the Warriors were his preferred destination. “It would’ve been dope, man. I was looking forward to it if it happened,” George said.

Klay Comes Home

Ask any Golden State Warriors fan what their most anticipated game of the season is, and they will likely tell you November 12 versus the Dallas Mavericks. It is the day that one of the most beloved athletes in the history of Bay Area sports makes his return to Chase Center in an opposing uniform for the first time in his career.

Klay Thompson spent 13 years in The Bay where he etched himself as one of the best players in franchise history. One of the core members of four championship teams, a five-time all-star, epitomizing the heart of a Warrior, battling through two near career-threatening injuries.

It’ll undoubtedly be an emotional night with Thompson lined up against his former teammates, in front of a fan base that watched Klay grow from a quiet kid from Washington State into a first-ballot Hall of Famer in an arena he’ll one day have a statue outside of.

In Season Tournament

Is anyone still quite sure of what the importance of the NBA’s In Season Tournament is yet? Last year’s tournament concluded with the Los Angeles Lakers downing the Indiana Pacers to secure the inaugural IST cup. The Lakers would go on to finish eighth in the Western Conference and not much was made of it. The Dubs winded up going 2-2 and not advancing.

This year the Warriors will be a part of Group C in group play, along with Klay and the Mavs, the Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, and Denver Nuggets. With things getting underway on Nov. 12, the night of Klay’s return, and concluding on Tuesday, December 3 at Ball Arena in Denver.

Holiday Games

Stephen Curry’s Olympic teammate Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers kick off their season series with the Dubs on Christmas in San Francisco. A classic rivalry is renewed, it will be the fifth time the two square off against one another on Christmas day.

The defending NBA champion, Boston Celtics make their annual trip to Chase Center on Monday, January 20 to cap off the NBA’s MLK Day tripleheader on TNT.

NorCal Showdown

Northern California’s own, Warriors-Kings rivalry has given us some of the best basketball over the last couple of seasons, with the teams exchanging blows to end one another’s seasons. From Curry’s 50-point Game 7 masterpiece in Sacramento to the Kings eliminating the Warriors in the Play-In Tournament, the games are always a must-watch. The two meet up on January 5 and March 13 in San Francisco, and twice more in Sacramento on January 22 and February 21.

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