The Brooklyn Nets have known for some time now the opponents they will face in the preseason and during Group Play of the 2025 Emirates NBA Cup. Along the way, Brooklyn realized that they would not be playing on some of the marquee nights for the NBA like Christmas Day, but it has to feel good finally knowing what the schedule for the 2025-26 regular season will be.
The NBA announced on Thursday the full schedule for all 30 teams, including the Nets, and it seems that Brooklyn will be one of the teams in the league with the least amount of national exposure. The schedule shows that the Nets will be on national TV just twice with a matchup against Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves on Peacock on Nov. 3 and a contest against the Chicago Bulls on ESPN on Jan. 16.
The 2025-26 schedule represents a decrease of three games as the Nets had five national TV games heading into the 2024-25 season and that was with a roster led by Cam Johnson, Nic Claxton, and Cam Thomas. This time around, Johnson will be playing for the Denver Nuggets and Thomas could be in a Nets uniform next season, but that depends on if he re-signs with Brooklyn this summer.
During a season in which the Nets will have 14 back-to-backs, Brooklyn will open its season in a road matchup at LaMelo Ball and the Charlotte hornets on Oct. 22. The Nets’ home opener will be on Oct. 24 as they will face Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers following a 2024-25 season in which Cleveland finished with the second-best record in franchise history.
While Brooklyn will not be shown much to a national audience, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t notable players to watch out for as the Nets will still have players like Claxton in the fold. Brooklyn also added forward Michael Porter Jr. from the Nuggets and drafted guard Egor Demin with the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft to potentially be the point guard of the future. Brooklyn has another 82 games to prove how successful this summer was.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Details for Nets’ 2025-26 NBA regular season schedule
Reporting by Sharif Phillips-Keaton, Nets Wire / Nets Wire
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