PORTLAND, Ore. (August 15, 2024)– The Portland Trail Blazers will open their 2024-25 regular season campaign at home on Wednesday, Oct. 23 vs. Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors in the first of three home games at Moda Center.
Following the home opener, Zion Williamson, CJ McCollum and the New Orleans Pelicans will travel to Portland for two matchups on Oct. 25 and Oct. 27. The Trail Blazers then take their talents to California for the first road game of the season on Oct. 28 to take on De’Aaron Fox, DeMar DeRozan and the Sacramento Kings before heading to Los Angeles to visit the Clippers at their new home, the Intuit Dome on Oct. 30.
November brings reigning divisional champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder to Rip City on Nov. 1. The Trail Blazers will then go back on the road for four games which include matchups against Phoenix (Nov. 2), New Orleans (Nov. 4), Victor Wembanyama and San Antonio Spurs (Nov. 7) and Minnesota (Nov. 8).
The Emirates NBA Cup tips-off on Tuesday, Nov. 12, culminating with the Championship on Tuesday, Dec. 17 in Las Vegas. The In-Season Tournament will consist of two stages: Group Play and the Knockout Rounds. Each team will play four designated Group Play games on “Tournament Nights.” The Trail Blazers will face Anthony Edwards and Minnesota at home on Nov. 12, take on Houston on the road on Nov. 22, Sacramento at Moda Center on Nov. 29 and the LA Clippers in Los Angeles on Dec. 3 as part of West Group A.
Eight teams (four per conference) 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 be single-elimination games in the Quarterfinals (played in NBA team markets on Tuesday, Dec. 10 and Wednesday, Dec. 11), Semifinals and Championship. The qualifying teams will compete for a prize pool and the new In-Season Tournament trophy, the Emirates NBA Cup. More information available here.
Portland is scheduled to play one game on TNT and three games on NBATV. The team’s nationally televised appearances are highlighted by a home matchup with Damian Lillard, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, Jan. 28 (TNT), the Utah Jazz at Moda Center on Thursday, Dec. 26 (NBATV), at Cleveland on Sunday, March 2 (NBATV) and at New York on Sunday, March 30 (NBATV). All games will also be aired on flagship station Rip City Radio AM-620 and the Trail Blazers Radio Network.
Portland will embark on their first of three road trips consisting of five games or more in November as they travel to play Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Nov. 20, the Houston Rockets twice on Nov. 22 and Nov. 23, Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies on Nov. 25 and will wrap up the trip at Indiana on Nov. 27 before Thanksgiving. The Trail Blazers will return home to face Sacramento on Nov. 29 and Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 1 to usher in the holiday season.
Key December matchups include the team’s first game against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 8 on the road and Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 19 at home. The post-Christmas slate welcomes Utah (Dec. 26), Dallas (Dec. 28), Joel Embiid, Paul George and the Philadelphia 76ers (Dec. 30) to Moda Center. Of the first 31 scheduled games of the regular season, the Trail Blazers will face 28 Western Conference opponents.
The Trail Blazers will bring in the new year with their second five-game road trip of the season with matchups at L.A. Lakers (Jan. 2), Milwaukee (Jan. 4), Detroit (Jan. 6), New Orleans (Jan. 8) and Dallas (Jan. 9). Portland will then play 12 of their next 15 games in the friendly confines of Moda Center, highlighted by visits from Miami (Jan. 11), LA Clippers (Jan. 16), Oklahoma City (Jan. 26), Orlando (Jan. 30), along with two games against Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns (Feb. 1 and Feb. 3).
Divisional matchups at Minnesota on Feb. 8 and two games at Denver on Feb. 10 and Feb. 12 will take the Trail Blazers into the All-Star Break. Post break, Portland will open with LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers’ first appearance of the season at Moda Center on Feb. 20. The longest road trip of the season includes seven games and will tip-off on Feb. 24 at Utah. The team will then travel to the east coast to take on Washington (Feb. 26), Brooklyn (Feb. 28), Cleveland (March 2), Philadelphia (March 3), Boston (March 5) and Oklahoma City (March 7).
March will feature the second seven-game home stand in Rip City where the Trail Blazers will play host to Jalen Brunson and The New York Knicks on March 12, Memphis on March 19, Denver on March 21 and the defending NBA Champions Boston Celtics on March 23. The last extended road trip of the season features matchups at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks on March 30, Atlanta on April 1 and Chicago on April 4.
The Trail Blazers will close the 2024-25 campaign with three out of four games at home including San Antonio (April 6), Golden State (April 11) and will finish the regular season vs. L.A. Lakers (April 13).
The Trail Blazers entire 2024-25 regular season schedule can be viewed here trailblazers.com/schedule.
Season Ticket member presales will begin on Tuesday, August 20 while single game tickets will be available through public on sale on Friday, August 23. 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.
