Knicks Schedule December 2026: Game Times in ET, TV and the Christmas Day Game

The New York Knicks play 12 games in December 2026, opening at Chicago on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and hosting San Antonio on Christmas Day, according to the National Basketball Association (NBA) schedule. Three of the 12 games are at Madison Square Garden and nine are on the road, and a one-page printable of all of them is further down.

The source is the NBA’s 2026-27 regular season schedule from NBA Communications, dated Aug. 13, 2026 and marked “subject to change.” Its times are in ET; games outside the Eastern zone also get the home city’s time, which in December is Central Standard Time (CST) or Mountain Standard Time (MST). Weekdays are our own calculation. Four of the 12 games have national TV: NBC and Peacock, ABC, ESPN, and NBC Sports Network (NBCSN).

Knicks December 2026 game times, dates and TV

In the matchups below, “A at B” means A visits B, so a game listed as a team “at New York” is a home game at Madison Square Garden. “None listed” means the NBA’s schedule shows no national network for that game.

Date	Game	Time (ET)	National TV
Tue., Dec. 1	New York at Chicago	8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST)	NBC and Peacock
Wed., Dec. 2	New York at Milwaukee	8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST)	None listed
Sat., Dec. 12	New York at Miami	8:30 p.m.	ABC
Mon., Dec. 14	New York at Houston	8:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. CST)	None listed
Wed., Dec. 16	New York at New Orleans	8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST)	None listed
Fri., Dec. 18	New York at Washington	7 p.m.	None listed
Mon., Dec. 21	New York at Cleveland	7 p.m.	Peacock and NBCSN
Wed., Dec. 23	Utah at New York	7:30 p.m.	None listed
Fri., Dec. 25	San Antonio at New York	12 p.m. (noon)	ABC and ESPN
Sun., Dec. 27	Brooklyn at New York	6 p.m.	None listed
Wed., Dec. 30	New York at Utah	9 p.m. (7 p.m. MST)	None listed
Thu., Dec. 31	New York at Phoenix	9 p.m. (7 p.m. MST)	None listed

The NBA’s schedule lists national TV only. Local broadcasts are not in it; those are on the Knicks’ official schedule page at nba.com/knicks/schedule.

Knicks Christmas Day game at Madison Square Garden

The Knicks host San Antonio on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25, 2026, at 12 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden, carried on ABC and ESPN. It is the middle game of a three-game homestand: Utah on Wed., Dec. 23, San Antonio on Dec. 25 and Brooklyn on Sun., Dec. 27 all come to New York. Our Christmas Day 2026 NBA and NFL schedule lists the day’s full slate across the NBA and National Football League (NFL), and our When is Christmas? page has the date.

The empty stretch in the Knicks’ December schedule

After the Dec. 2 game at Milwaukee, the NBA’s schedule lists no Knicks games until Saturday, Dec. 12 at Miami. That gap, from Thu., Dec. 3 to Fri., Dec. 11, is the Emirates NBA Cup knockout window: the quarterfinals fall on Dec. 4-5 and the championship on Dec. 11 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, per NBA.com’s Aug. 12, 2026 release. Whether a given team plays in that window depends on the Cup group results, which were not settled when the schedule was published. Our NBA Cup 2026 schedule walks through each round.

The Knicks’ year-end trip out West

The Knicks close December with a two-game Western swing: at Utah on Wednesday, Dec. 30 and at Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2026, both tipping at 9 p.m. ET (7 p.m. MST). It is the back half of a run of nine road games among the 12 on the calendar, with the three home dates clustered around Christmas. The Knicks’ previous month is in our Knicks schedule for November 2026.

Printable Knicks December 2026 schedule

Yes, there is a printable. The one-page sheet lists all 12 December games with the opponent, home or away, ET start time (plus the local time for games outside the Eastern zone) and national TV, and it has an ink-saver version. Keep it next to the December 2026 printable calendar or copy the games into a printable weekly calendar.

Because the NBA’s schedule is “subject to change,” recheck game times on NBA.com before you head out. Results, injuries and tickets are not part of the NBA’s schedule and are not covered here.