NBA's 2026-27 schedule gives Jaylen Brown and Giannis Antetokounmpo homecoming games in January

NEW YORK (AP) — Jaylen Brown and Giannis Antetokounmpo will play homecoming games a week apart in January.

The 2026-27 NBA schedule was released Thursday, setting the dates for the two former NBA Finals MVPs to return to face the teams that traded them this summer.

The schedules for opening night and Christmas had already been unveiled earlier this week, so those two games were among the most intriguing matchups not yet known. Brown, who was dealt from the Celtics to the rival Philadelphia 76ers in a stunning move, will play his first game back in Boston on Jan. 21.

Antetokounmpo was expected to be traded by Milwaukee this offseason — at one point speculation was that he might be swapped for Brown — and was eventually dealt to Miami. The Heat will travel to face the Bucks for the first time on Jan. 28.

Both of those games, which will be on Thursday nights, will stream on Prime Video.

Other details about the schedule:

The season will open Oct. 20 with a tripleheader, highlighted by LeBron James, Brown and the 76ers visiting the Knicks, who will receive their rings after winning the franchise's first championship since 1973.

The regular season ends April 11. All-Star weekend is set for Feb. 19-21 in Phoenix.

Every team will play on Monday, Nov. 2, and there will then be no games the following night, which is Election Day in the U.S. The league is leaving that first Tuesday in November as an open day in hopes that fans and members of the NBA community will participate in the voting process.

No teams will play on Saturday, April 10, the second-to-last day of the regular season. Every team is then in action on the final day, with all the games matching Eastern Conference teams and the one interconference matchup scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT. The games involving West teams are set for 8:30 p.m.

There will be 90 regular-season games televised nationally on ABC or NBC, up from 79 last season. Every team will be scheduled to appear on national TV at least twice.

Throughout the season, games will stream on Peacock on Monday nights, be shown on NBC and Peacock on Tuesdays, be televised by ESPN on Wednesdays, and stream on Prime Video on Fridays.

Saturday night primetime games on ABC begin Dec. 12 with the Knicks visiting the Heat, while NBC's “Sunday Night Basketball” returns Jan. 24 with Oklahoma City visiting Golden State.

Prime Video will begin streaming Thursday night doubleheaders in January and some Saturday afternoon games starting Feb. 6 with Portland at Memphis, when Ja Morant returns to face the Grizzlies for the first time.

The NBA champion Knicks have the most appearances on ABC with six, while the Lakers, 76ers, San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves all are featured on ESPN eight times.

The Knicks, Spurs, 76ers, Thunder, Warriors, Nuggets, Lakers and Houston all get the maximum 11 appearances on NBC.

Teams will average 14.2 back-to-backs this season, the lowest total since the NBA Cup was added to the schedule, and no team will have more than 16. No team will play eight games in 12 nights, or 18 in 30.

There are 59 back-to-backs involving at least 750 miles of travel, down from 74 last season.

No team will be scheduled to play the night before games in the NBA Cup, or if they are in nationally televised games on Christmas Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Sunday nights on NBC or Saturday nights on ABC.

If Kevin Durant averages 26 points, as he did in his first season in Houston, he could move past Kobe Bryant into fourth place on the career scoring list sometime around Jan. 16, when the Rockets would be at the midpoint of their schedule.

Rick Carlisle is set to become the eighth man to coach 2,000 NBA games on March 8, when the Indiana Pacers play their 65th game of the season.

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FILE - Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown plays during Game 6 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, April 30, 2026, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 13, 2026--

The global hospitality industry is on a tear, and the reasons run deeper than a post-pandemic rebound. Market research projects the sector will reach roughly $5.8 trillion by the end of 2026 and climb to $7.5 trillion by 2030, a steady 6.4% annual growth rate that shows no sign of slowing.

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Joshua Marc Hebert, CEO and founder of Magellan Jets, has watched this trend build over 26 years in luxury hospitality and private aviation, and he has a plain-spoken theory about what's driving it.

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The pandemic accelerated the shift, but did not create it. The lockdown years taught a generation what it costs to be kept apart, but the upward trend was already underway well before 2020. What COVID did was sharpen the appetite for shared experiences that a screen can never replace.

In Hebert’s view, this is what modern hospitality has become. Not a hotel room or a restaurant table, but a means to buy back the one thing screens have made scarce: time together.

About Magellan Jets

Magellan Jets is a world-class private aviation solutions provider offering Jet Cards, Charter Flights, Fractional Ownership, and Aircraft Sales and Management Services. With a focus on safety, hospitality, and Client care, the company is setting a new standard in private jet travel. Magellan Jets has flown Private Clients to over 100 countries and consistently delivers exceptional service, maintaining a 4.9-out-of-5-star rating. The company has been featured on the Inc. 5000 list of "Fastest Growing Companies in America," awarded Robb Report's "Best of the Best," and named Modern Luxury's "Best Private Charter."

Founded in Boston in 2008, Magellan Jets is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, with a private terminal in Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Magellan Jets has built its reputation as a roadshow operator, moving executives to two cities a day across a seven-day stretch, and that business remains strong. Today, a newer pattern is emerging: families using private aviation as a tool to come together.