One of the biggest days of the NBA calendar year is the annual slate of games scheduled for Christmas Day. The Boston Celtics have been a frequent beneficiary of being a part of the contests that draw the most eyes in the entire league calander.
And the Celtics will once again be featured on Dec. 25 by the league according to new reporting from The Athletic’s Shams Charania. He reports Boston will face the Milwaukee Bucks at TD Garden on Christmas Day.
The day’s other four games are the Golden State Warriors hosting the Memphis Grizzlies, the Philadelphia 76ers at the New York Knicks, the Phoenix Suns at the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Dallas Mavericks;
All but one of Boston’s usual starting five makes the cut, along with two players who will almost certainly spend most of next season coming off of the bench for the Celtics. https://t.co/HkxqieFuVh
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) August 14, 2022
Per the Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn, the Celtics are going to start the season at home as scheduling news starts to percolate ahead of the late August to early September timeframe it usually is put out.
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