Ranking the NBA's Christmas games: Why Celtics-Lakers, Warriors-Nuggets top the holiday slate
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The NBA annually plays five of its biggest games on Christmas
The NBA is coming off of one of the more compelling Christmas slates it has ever had. There was good (Denver and Phoenix's overtime thriller!), bad (Austin Reaves playing center?) and just plain ominous (the first hints of James Harden's dissatisfaction in Philadelphia). But if the league has its way this season, the drama will be contained entirely to the court. Fortunately, it has a very fun five-game schedule to do that with.
The top three Eastern Conference seeds are all slated to take the floor. So are the two defending finalists. The NBA's best rivalry gets renewed on Christmas. Three games are rematches of playoff series that took place within the past two postseasons. So with all of that action to look forward to, what is the best game coming on Christmas? We decided to rank all five to find out.
