National Basketball Association Christmas games

The first NBA game played on December 25 Arrived in 1947, a year after the NBA’s Beginning, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75.

Ever since then, the NBA has played games each year on Christmas Day except in 1998 (if a lockout canceled half the 1998–99 season). In contrast, Major League Baseball is at its off-season during Christmas, the National Football League only programs Christmas games when Christmas falls on the weekend (and even then just schedules games on Christmas occasionally) and the National Hockey League’s collective bargaining agreement forbids playing matches on Christmas Day (and, except if it falls on a Saturday, Christmas Eve too ). In college football, the only bowl game traditionally scheduled for Christmas has become the defunct Aloha Bowl (and for a single year, its replacement, the Hawaii Bowl). The NBA is the only league to schedule games on December 25.
From the early days closeness dictated most of the matchups. Teams would play with with their rivals to cut down on holiday travel and also to let them have time with their families. Based on Dr. Jack Ramsay, who coached the Portland Trail Blazers from 1976–77 (their only tournament season) into 1986,”Christmas supposed being at home with all the family and having a game we always won. That was a great Christmas to me.” He also set the record for most coaching victories on Christmas Day with 11, an achievement that Phil Jackson afterwards matched in 2008.
From the 1980s, the New York Knicks put three years. In one game (1984), hall-of-fame ahead Bernard King scoring 60 points–the most ever scored by a player on Christmas Day, With the advent of television and the excitement brought on by these games, the NBA decided to scheduled games over the holiday which showcased the best players and teams.

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