Here's when the OKC Thunder will release their entire 2025-26 regular season schedule

It looks like the Oklahoma City Thunder won't have to wait much longer to fill out their calendar. With Opening Night and Christmas matchups already reported, the NBA is set to release its complete 2025-26 regular season schedule on Thursday, Aug. 14.

The Atlanta Hawksposted on social media that their schedule will be dropped on that day. Which means the other 29 NBA teams will follow suit. That date is similar to the previous two years, when the full schedules were released on Aug. 15 and Aug. 17, both on Thursday.

As is tradition, the Thunder will kick off the 2025-26 season as the reigning NBA champions. They will host the Houston Rockets Opening Night on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Kevin Durant will attend OKC's pregame ceremony of the banner drop and rings being handed out. It will also be the first game in the new NBC broadcast era.

After being snubbed last year, the Thunder are back on the Christmas Day slate. They will host the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, Dec. 25. The NBA promotes the holiday as one of its biggest days of the regular season. It only made sense to have the NBA champion on it.

Until then, thought, expect regular-season schedule news to slowly trickle in until Aug. 14. Special regular-season matchups — such as OKC's 2025 NBA Cup group games — could be announced sooner in the next few days. The Thunder already know their opponents for the in-season tournament. It's now about when they'll play them.

In the driest part of the NBA calendar, August's schedule release day is an oasis for the two-month snoozefest. The Thunder will enter the 2025-26 season as a popular pick to repeat as NBA champions. They're running it back with mostly the same roster that just had one of the greatest seasons ever.

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