Previewing NBA's 5 Christmas Day games
The NBA has always made it a point of giving the fans its best basketball during the holidays. In recent years, the league has scheduled 5 best possible games for Christmas Day with no game overlapping the other, thus allowing the fans to not miss any game.Only one game before Christmas day guarantees entertainment, while the others are disappointing to say the least. Here are the five games. All times are in Indian Standard Time(IST).Washington Wizards Vs New York Knicks [25th December 10:30 pm ] Oklahoma City Thunder Vs San Antonio Spurs [26th December 1:00 am ]Cleveland Cavaliers Vs Miami Heat [26th December 3:30 am ]Chicago Bulls Vs Los Angeles Lakers [26th December 6:30 am ]Golden State Warriors Vs Los Angeles Clippers [26th December 9:00 am]At the start of the season, these games looked like the best five entertainment wise, but now, you can probably turn on your television sets for just three of those games considering the current sorry state of the Knicks and Lakers.Here’s a preview to the 5 Christmas Day games:
#5 Washington Wizards Vs New York Knicks
Avoid tuning into this game or streaming it online unless you’re a diehard fan of one of the teams because this is a contest between two teams on the opposite ends of the standings in the Eastern Conference.The Knicks are last, but one with a record of 5-25 while the John Wall led Wizards carried their strong Playoffs performance to the regular season with a record of 19-7, third in the East ahead of the Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
3-15, that’s the win-loss record for the Knicks in games decided by 7 points or lesser up until the 18th of December which clearly means they lack the fortitude and composure to finish games as the winning team. With injuries to J.R.Smith and Iman Shumpert, and superstar Carmelo Anthony’s game hampered by his troubling knees, the Knicks will have to sweat it out just to be competitive.
If they do manage to keep it close in the final minutes, trust the Knicks team to hand the game to their opponents. Probably the only reason the league had this game on Christmas day was because they wanted a basketball game to be played during the holidays at the Mecca, otherwise known as Madison Square Garden.
Watch out for: A blowout courtesy the Wizards.