1 takeaway from each of the 5 NBA Christmas Day games
The five-game Christmas Day schedule was once again jam-packed with plenty of NBA fun that says quite a bit about the future of the 2019-20 season.
It wasn’t the Christmas Day we had all envisioned when the schedule was first announced in August. We have injuries to the likes of Pascal Siakam, Stephen Curry and Zion Williamson to thank for that.
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But as has been the case on several occasions in recent years, the NBA still finds a way to entertain the masses on the premier date of the regular season, and 2019 was no exception.
We had a collection of expected outstanding individual performances by the likes of Kawhi Leonard and Joel Embiid. Some teams that weren’t expected to took home victories. Dunks and 3-pointers flushed the Twitter world — what else is new?
It might have been just one game for each of the 10 teams involved in this incredible honor, but there’s a bigger picture effect at play after this five-game slate of basketball heaven.
This isn’t to say what happened across these special games is an iron-clad precursor for the remainder of the season and the playoffs, but they might, and the ramifications could be massive because of it.