Let’s open the floor for schedule prognostications. If you can successfully predict all five Christmas Day matchups by Tuesday at noon ET — and if you have signed up for our mailing list in advance and adhere to the rest of the rules — you’ll receive a one-year membership to this Substack.
Those rules:
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You must clearly make your five matchup picks (Bucks vs. Suns, etc.) in the discussion thread below by the deadline or before comments are disabled — whichever comes first. I will disable the comments if most or all of the full five-game slate is reported by trusted news outlets or officially announced by ESPN before Tuesday’s buzzer.
Bucks-Nets
Sixers-Heat
Hawks-Pelicans
Nuggets-Mavs
Warriors-Lakers
Suns-Lakers
Heat-Bucks
Knicks-Mavericks
Clippers-Warriors
Bulls-Nets
Mavericks-Knicks
Hawks-76ers
Suns-Bucks
Nets-Lakers
Nuggets-Warriors
Celtics v Bulls
Knicks v Hawks
Nets v Sixers
Bucks v Suns
Lakers v Warriors
Knicks v Nets
Sixers v Hawks
Detroit v Houston
Bucks v Suns
Lakers v Clippers
Bulls v Heat, Bucks v Sixers, Nets v Lakers, Warriors v Suns, Mavs v Clippers
Sixers v Nets
Bucks v Heat
Knicks v Celtics
Suns v Clippers
Lakers v Warriors
Knicks vs 76ers
Bucks vs Heat
Lakers vs Nets
Suns vs Warriors
Jazz vs Mavericks
Bucks vs Suns
Lakers vs Warriors
Knicks vs Celtics
Bulls vs Hawks
Sixers vs Nets
Bulls vs Sixers
Hawks vs Mavs
Bucks vs Nets
Lakers vs Warriors
Clippers vs Suns
Heat vs. Sixers
Hawks vs. Mavs
Nets vs Lakers
Bucks vs. Warriors
Jazz vs. Suns
Nets/Lakers
Suns/Bucks
Warriors/Mavericks
Nuggets/Pelicans
Bulls/Knicks
Pelicans/Bulls
Heat/Knicks
Bucks/Nets
Lakers/Clippers
Warriors/Suns
Nets/Lakers
Mavs/Warriors
Pistons/Rockets
Suns/Bucks
Hawks/Knicks
76ers vs Hawks
Knicks vs Nets
Bucks vs Heat
Lakers vs Clippers
Mavs vs Warriors
Hawks vs. Knicks
Bucks vs. Celts
Nets vs. Lakers
Warriors vs. Mavs
Suns vs. Nuggets
Lakers vs Suns
Bucks vs Nets
Clippers vs Warriors
Hawks vs Knicks
Celtics vs Sixers
Pelicans Knicks
Hawks 76ers
Bucks Mavs
Lakers Nets
Suns Warriors
My perfect Christmas list
Sixers vs Celtics
Nets vs Heat
Suns vs Nuggets
Hawks vs Mavericks
Warriors vs Lakers
76'ers v Hawks 12p
Celtics v Nets 230p
Lakers v Bucks 5p
Mavs v Clippers 8p
Warriors v Suns 1030p
Pelicans @ 76ers , noon
Hawks @ NYK , 230pm
Celtics @ Nets 8pm
Suns @ Bucks 5pm
Mavericks @ Lakers 1030pm
Hawks v Knicks 12pm ET
Pels v Mavs 2:30pm ET
Celtics v 76ers 5pm ET
Nets v Bucks 8pm ET
Suns v Lakers 10:30pm ET
76ers vs Knicks 12pm
Warriors vs Suns 230pm
Mavs vs Nets 5pm
Bucks vs Lakers 8pm
Clippers vs Trail Blazers 1030pm
Bucks vs. Suns
Hawks vs. Knicks
Nets vs. Lakers
Clippers vs. Mavericks
Warriors vs. Jazz
Hawks vs Knicks
Celtics vs 76ers
Warriors vs Mavericks
Nets vs Lakers
Bucks vs Suns
Nets vs Knicks
Bucks vs Heat
Hawks vs Warriors
Mavs vs Clippers
Suns vs Lakers
Christmas Day Slate:
Celtics vs. Knicks
Clippers vs. Sixers
Sun vs. Bucks
Lakers vs. Nets
Mavericks vs. Warriors
Knicks vs Hawks
76ers vs Heat
Bucks vs Suns
Nets vs Lakers
Warriors vs Mavericks
Celtics - Knicks
Sixers - Bucks
Nets - Lakers
Suns - Warriors
Pelicans - Nuggets
Atlanta vs New York
Brooklyn vs Milwaukee
LA Lakers vs Phoenix
Philadelphia vs LA Clippers
Golden State vs Utah
Atlanta vs New York,
Brooklyn vs Milwaukee
LA Lakers vs Phoenix
Philadelphia vs Los Angeles Clippers
Philadelphia vs Utah
NY Knicks vs Brooklyn
Atlanta Vs Philly
Suns vs Milwaukee
Lakers vs Golden State
Denver vs Dallas
Bucks vs Suns
Lakers vs Mavericks
Boston vs Nets
Hawks vs Knicks
Golden State vs Miami
Hawks vs Mavericks
76ers vs Heat
Bucks vs Lakers
Nets vs Knicks
Suns vs Warriors
Lakers vs Warriors
Bucks vs Hawks
Nets vs Knicks
Heat vs 76ers
Suns vs Mavericks
Warriors Vs Lakers
Hawks Vs Bucks
Nets Vs 76ers
Suns Vs Clippers
Heat Vs Mavericks
Christmas Day Slate:
Celtics vs. Knicks
Clippers vs. Pelicans
Heat vs. Bucks
Lakers vs. Nets
Mavericks vs. Warriors
Hawks / Sixers
Knicks / Nets
Mavs / Clippers
Bucks / Suns
Lakers / Warriors
Celtics Sixers
Bucks Nets
Hawks Knicks
Lakers Warriors
Jazz Suns
Hawks-Knicks
Heat-Bucks
Nets-Lakers
Mavs-Clippers
Warriors-Suns
Knicks heat
Mavericks Hawks
Bucks nets
Suns lakers
Warriors Nuggets
76ers/Knicks
Suns/Mavericks
Bucks/Lakers
Nets/Heat
Warriors/Nuggets
Lakers Nets
Warriors Mavericks
Bucks Heat
Knicks 76ers
Suns Pelicans
Lakers vs Nets
Bucks vs Suns
76ers vs Knicks
Warriors vs Nuggets
Mavs vs Hawks
Bucks vs Suns
Lakers vs Warriors
Nets vs Knicks
Heat vs Sixers
Nuggets vs Mavericks
Lakers vs. Suns
Bucks vs. Nets
Warriors vs. Mavs
Heat vs. Sixers
Nuggets vs. Pelicans
Lakers vs Warriors
Bucks vs Nets
Suns vs Mavs
Hawks vs 76ers
Nuggets vs Heat
Lakers vs. Nets
Warriors vs. Mavs
Pelicans vs. Knicks
Bucks vs. Suns
Sixers vs. Nuggets
Bucks vs Nets
Celtics vs Knicks
Hawks vs mavs
Suns vs lakers
Nuggets vs Warriors
Pelicans/Knicks, Sixers/Celtics, Bucks/Lakers, Nets/Heat, Nuggets/Suns