NEW YORK — Every NBA team will have at least two national TV games this season, the league confirmed Thursday as part of its full schedule unveiling for 2025-26.The reason: There simply are more national games than ever, now that the league’s new 11-year, $76 billion agreements with ABC-ESPN, NBC-Peacock and Amazon Prime Video are about to formally begin.There will be 247 games scheduled on those networks this season, up from 172 last season between ABC, ESPN and TNT.Other notes from this season’s schedule release:The NBA, which did not play on Election Day in 2022, 2023 or 2024, will have games on that date this season. It falls on Nov. 4.The NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder play the Los Angeles Clippers as part of the six-game slate on that date.There is one special election to fill a congressional seat on that date this year, along with two gubernatorial races and numerous state and local races. The NBA still plans to not have games on Election Days during midterm and Presidential election years, which would mean no games on those dates in 2026 or 2028.There will be games this season on April 6, the day of the NCAA men’s basketball national championship game in Indianapolis.Atlanta, Orlando, Memphis, San Antonio and Denver all host games on that date. The Knicks at Atlanta is the Peacock game.There were two games on NCAA title day last season, breaking the unofficial tradition of the league not playing on that night.The final day of the regular season is April 12, and all 30 …
