Health is the NBA’s biggest bet every year when the league releases regular-season schedules for all 30 teams. Everybody is hoping for a healthy Steph Curry on Christmas against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. Curry is the sole reason the Warriors are slated to appear on Christmas for a 14th consecutive year. He’s why the Warriors even have 28 national games in the 2026-27 NBA season, down from 34 last season.
The bigger gamble is a healthy and close to full-strength Curry in the Warriors’ one game at Madison Square Garden this season. The game against the New York Knicks falls on a Saturday night, 5:30 p.m. PT on Feb. 13 at The Mecca. Those few details alone are an appointment for must-see TV and a list of top celebrities sitting along the sidelines.
It’s also the sixth and final game of a Warriors road trip that begins in LA and ends across the country in New York. The Warriors play the LA Clippers, Charlotte Hornets, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics and the Knicks, in that order. Fortunately for them, the trip only features one back-to-back when the Warriors play in Chicago on a Tuesday night and Boston on a...