There is NBA action on Saturday, December 7 and includes a matchup with the Boston Celtics hosting the Memphis Grizzlies at TD Garden in Boston.
The game is scheduled to start at 8:00 PM EST and will be broadcast NBC Sports Boston and FanDuel Sports Network Midwest Extra. Fans who want to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial. You can see it too FuboTVwhich offers $30 off the first month or SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.
The Celtics are 19-4 and the Grizzlies are 15-8. Both teams come into this game on the back of wins, but Boston is playing in the second half of a streak. On Friday, the Celtics defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 111-105.
WHO: Memphis Grizzlies vs. Boston Celtics
When: Saturday, December 7th at 8pm EST
Where: TD Garden in Boston
Transmission: FuboTV; Sling; DirecTV Stream (free trial)
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NBA to return to China for pair of Suns-Nets preseason games in 2025
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
The NBA will return to China next season, reaching an agreement to play preseason games there more than five years after the league was effectively banned because commissioner Adam Silver failed to punish Daryl Morey for tweeting support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.
The Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns will play at China’s gambling hub in Macau on Oct. 10, 2025, and again two days later, the NBA announced Friday. A person with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press that there are plans for two more preseason games in China in 2026.
The Nets and Suns will play at the Venetian Arena in Macau, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp., which is also a casino operator. Sands president and chief operating officer Patrick Dumont became a governor of the Dallas Mavericks late last year after his family acquired the team.
“We are incredibly excited to partner with Sands to bring NBA games back to Macau starting next year,” said NBA Assistant Commissioner Mark Tatum in Macau, adding that the deal is “a significant milestone in the continued global growth of basketball.”
The Nets are owned by Joe Tsai, the chairman of Chinese tech giant Alibaba.
To basically kick off the return of NBA games to China, there will be a celebrity game in Macau on Saturday. Basketball Hall of Famers Tony Parker, Ray Allen and Tracy McGrady, along with former NBA standouts Stephon Marbury, DeMarcus Cousins and Cuttino Mobley are the main attractions. All participated in Friday’s event to announce the Suns-Nets games.
Friday’s announcement caps a long series of moves toward some sort of return to normalcy between China and the league. The NBA, in some ways, has been welcome for a while: Miami’s Jimmy Butler, who has an endorsement deal with Chinese clothing company Li-Ning, has toured the country and drawn huge crowds at each the last two seasons, while Golden. State’s Stephen Curry and Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox drew huge crowds when they visited in September.
Then in October, Silver said he thought the league would “bring the games to China at some point.”
“NBA basketball is a global sport that attracts people of different ages, backgrounds and cultures. It creates exciting experiences that connect people while playing a positive role in communities,” said Dumont. “Sands is honored to bring the NBA China Games to Macau so the most elite level of basketball can be experienced directly by the passionate fans.”
The geopolitical rift between China and the league began in October 2019 when Morey, then general manager of the Houston Rockets and now general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, tweeted support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. The tweet was quickly deleted, but the fallout lasted for years, and Beijing was clearly upset that Silver supported Morey’s right to speak on the issue.
“If these are the consequences of sticking to our values, we still think it’s very important that we stick to those values,” Silver said at the time.
The timing of the tweet was especially awkward, given that the Nets and Los Angeles Lakers were in China at the time for two games. The games were played largely in silence with fans in attendance, many emblazoned with NBA logos on their jerseys, and even without the usual pre- and post-game press conferences.
The NBA was criticized by Republican and Democratic US lawmakers for playing and not saying more about China’s human rights record.
Largely because Silver did not sanction Morey to China’s liking, no NBA games were shown on CCTV, China’s state broadcaster, for a year after that tweet. The end of the 2020 NBA Finals was shown on CCTV, which began showing live games in 2022. NBA games were available to Chinese fans on streaming service Tencent, a other of the league’s broadcast partners.
The league said the rift cost as much as $400 million in lost revenue the following year, and that figure was likely to continue to rise. But there were steps towards reconciliation along the way; The NBA legend and Yao Ming went to the United States for commissioner emeritus David Stern’s memorial service in January 2020, a move seen at the time as a mutual sign that the league and China wanted to mend fences. China then publicly thanked the NBA in February 2020, when what became the COVID-19 pandemic in its early days, for sending more than $1 million in medical supplies to help there are the coronavirus relief efforts.
The league has played a preseason game in Macau once before, with Orlando beating Cleveland there in 2007. The Magic, on that same trip, also played a Chinese all-star team in Macau. And in 2008, USA Basketball held exhibitions in Macau before the Beijing Olympics.
“The game of basketball here, the fans have a lot of respect for it,” then Cavaliers star LeBron James said after playing in Macau in 2007. “It’s great to see.”
Macau, a former Portuguese colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1999, is the only place in China where casino gaming is legal. Beijing has called for the city to diversify its gambling-dependent economy, hoping it can boost tourism and act as a bridge for trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.
The Associated Press contributed to this article