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The Portland Trail Blazers will tip-off their 2025-26 regular season campaign at Moda Center on Wednesday, Oct. 22 against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the NBA announced today.
Following its Oct. 22 season opener against Minnesota, Portland hosts Golden State (Oct. 24) for a Friday night matchup and then embarks on a three-game road trip to take on the LA Clippers (Oct. 26), Los Angeles Lakers (Oct. 27) and Utah Jazz (Oct. 29), before returning home to open Emirates NBA Cup Group Play against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 31 at Moda Center.
The Halloween night matchup with Denver begins a three-game homestand that also includes meetings with LeBron James, Luka Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. 3 and reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the defending NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Nov. 5.
Trail Blazers games will be televised by KUNP/KATU/BlazerVision, the television home of the Portland Trail Blazers, or on national carriers. Portland’s schedule is set to include eight nationally-televised games—seven on NBC/Peacock and one on Amazon Prime Video. The team’s nationally televised appearances on NBC/Peacock include four games at Moda Center vs. the Phoenix Suns (Nov. 18 and Feb. 3), Dallas Mavericks (Dec. 29) and Minnesota Timberwolves (Feb. 24), and three on the road against the Golden State Warriors (Jan. 13), Boston Celtics (Jan. 26) and LA Clippers (March 31). The team’s Dec. 26 home matchup vs. the Clippers will be featured on Amazon Prime Video.
Portland opens this season’s Emirates NBA Cup at home against Denver on Oct. 31, travels to Houston (Nov. 14) and Golden State (Nov. 21) and then closes out West Group C competition at home against San Antonio (Nov. 26).
From the group play stage of the NBA Cup, eight total teams across the league will advance to the Knockout Rounds: the team with the best standing in Group Play games in each of the six groups and two “wild cards” (the team from each conference with the best record in Group Play games that finished second in its group).
The Knockout Rounds will consist of single-elimination games in the Quarterfinals (played in NBA team markets on Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Wednesday, Dec. 10) and Semifinals and Championship (played in Las Vegas on Dec. 13 and Dec. 16, respectively).
On Dec. 22, Portland kicks off a stretch of playing 12 out of 15 games at home—hosting Detroit (Dec. 22), Orlando (Dec. 23), the LA Clippers (Dec. 26), Boston (Dec. 28) and Dallas (Dec. 29) before departing on a quick three-game road trip and returning for a season-long seven-game homestand in which it faces Utah (Jan. 5), Houston (Jan. 7 & 9), New York (Jan. 11), Golden State (Jan. 13), Atlanta (Jan. 15) and the Los Angeles Lakers (Jan. 17).
The Trail Blazers’ schedule features 15 back-to-backs including two games at Moda Center vs. Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr. and the Memphis Grizzlies on Feb. 6 and 7, a season-long homestand of seven games (Jan. 5-17) and three season-long road trips of five games each (Nov. 8-16, Feb. 26-March 6, March 15-22).
The Trail Blazers are also set to host four Sunday afternoon tip-offs during the 2025-26 season, with Nov. 30 vs. Oklahoma City, Dec. 28 vs. Boston, Jan. 11 vs. New York and March 29 vs. Washington all scheduled to tip-off at 3 p.m. PT.
Portland’s month-by-month breakdown includes six games in October (three home, three road), 14 games in November (six home, eight road), 12 games in December (six home, six road), 15 games in January (eight home, seven road), 12 games in February (seven home, five road), 16 games in March (seven home, nine road) and five games in April (three home, two road).
Over the course of the remainder of the season, Portland notably hosts Donovan Mitchell and Cleveland on Feb. 1, welcomes Denver for a second time on Feb. 20, faces Giannis Antetokounmpo and Milwaukee on March 25 and hosts a second matchup with Anthony Davis, Cooper Flagg and Dallas on March 27.
Portland’s regular season schedule currently includes defined dates and opponents for 80 of the team’s 82 games, with two games designated as to be determined dates and opponents. Those two games will be played on Dec. 11/12 and Dec. 14/15 and matchups will be determined based on the results of Group Play games in the Emirates NBA Cup.
Led by head coach Chauncey Billups in his fifth season at the helm, the Trail Blazers enter the 2025-26 season returning a group of versatile forwards including Deni Avdija, Second Team NBA All-Defense selection Toumani Camara and Jerami Grant, guards Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe, Second Team NBA All-Rookie selection center Donovan Clingan, as well as adding veteran All-Star guard Jrue Holiday and first-round draft selection Yang Hansen. Portland is coming off a 2024-25 campaign in which it recorded its most wins in a season since 2020-21 and ranked third in the NBA in defensive efficiency over the second half of the season.
The Trail Blazers’ entire 2025-26 regular season schedule can be viewed here: trailblazers.com/schedule.
Season ticket member presales will begin on Friday, Aug. 15 while single game tickets will be available through public on sale on Saturday, Aug. 16. To guarantee tickets to all of your favorite home matchups through a Trail Blazers ticket package, call 844-RIP-CITY or visit trailblazers.com/tickets for more information.
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