This year features another five games being played on Christmas Day, including several NBA title contenders, which basketball fans can watch nationally. The Cleveland Cavaliers (17-14) will take on the New York Knicks (20-9) at Madison Square Garden on Thursday at noon ET on ABC and ESPN and the ESPN app.

WDAM 7’s weekend sports offerings include NBA & college basketball, NHL hockey

The NBA, in an ongoing attempt to build more rest into the schedule and ease travel demands on its players, has announced another change to the NBA Finals format. The league introduced a revised template for its Finals schedule Wednesday, scrapping its ...

Live coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET with debut of Basketball Night in America and Lenny Kravitz’s Sunday Night Basketball show open.