The Milwaukee Bucks will play their secod of three straight home games Thursday night, hosting the Golden State Warriors in a battle of one-loss teams. The game

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Postgame editions will be open-ended on ESPN while ABC will run a half-hour and then continue on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates during the regular season and throughout the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

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Hoopers and gamers alike will have to wait until 2026 to play with the 2K Coogs. In the interim, you can catch Houston live and in-person as early as Monday night. The Coogs will host Lehigh in its 2025-26 season opener at Fertitta Center in Houston, with tip-off slated for 7 p.m. CT.

The six group winners plus a wild card from each conference — determined by head-to-head record and point differential — go into an eight-team knockout round bracket (East vs. East, West vs. West, similar to the NBA playoffs where the conferences are separate until the Finals). The knockout round games are single-elimination.

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All of the games count towards the 82-game regular-season standings, with the exception of the championship game. Teams that advance to the knockout round all receive a share of the roughly $18 million prize pool, with teams advancing the furthest getting the largest allotment.

It's a 11-game night in the NBA, with Stephen Curry, Victor Wembanyama, Nikola Jokić and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in action.