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

The Oklahoma City Thunder open December 2026 at home against Brooklyn on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. Central Time (CT), which is 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), according to the National Basketball Association (NBA) schedule. The month’s headline date is Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25, when the Thunder play at the Minnesota Timberwolves at 7 p.m. CT (8 p.m. ET) on ABC and ESPN.

The NBA’s 2026-27 regular season schedule PDF, dated Aug. 13, 2026 and marked “subject to change,” gives times in ET and lists each game’s local time for the home team. Oklahoma City is on Central Time. The table below shows every Thunder game in December with the CT time, and a printable of the same rows is further down.

Thunder schedule for December 2026

The NBA’s August schedule lists 11 Thunder games in December: six at home and five on the road. Weekdays are our own calculation. The CT column is the ET time minus 1 hour, which matches the local time the NBA lists for the games in Oklahoma City, Minnesota, New Orleans and Houston; the Charlotte and Atlanta games are in Eastern Time.

Date	Game	CT	ET	National TV
Wed., Dec. 2	Brooklyn at Oklahoma City	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed
Sun., Dec. 13	Toronto at Oklahoma City	2:30 p.m.	3:30 p.m.	None listed
Wed., Dec. 16	Sacramento at Oklahoma City	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed
Fri., Dec. 18	Oklahoma City at Charlotte	6 p.m.	7 p.m.	None listed
Sun., Dec. 20	Oklahoma City at Atlanta	6 p.m.	7 p.m.	None listed
Tue., Dec. 22	Detroit at Oklahoma City	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	NBC and Peacock
Wed., Dec. 23	Oklahoma City at New Orleans	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed
Fri., Dec. 25	Oklahoma City at Minnesota	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	ABC and ESPN
Sun., Dec. 27	Oklahoma City at Houston	2:30 p.m.	3:30 p.m.	None listed
Tue., Dec. 29	Milwaukee at Oklahoma City	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed
Thu., Dec. 31	Miami at Oklahoma City	7 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed

“None listed” means the NBA’s schedule shows no national network for that game. Local broadcasts are listed by the team at nba.com/thunder/schedule.

Thunder Christmas Day game 2026

The Thunder play at the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday, Dec. 25, at 7 p.m. CT (8 p.m. ET), on ABC and ESPN, according to the NBA’s schedule. It is one of two December Thunder games with a national network listed, with NBC and Peacock carrying Detroit’s visit on Tuesday, Dec. 22. For the full holiday slate, see our Christmas Day 2026 NBA and National Football League (NFL) schedule and the When is Christmas? date page.

No Thunder games from Dec. 3 to Dec. 12

The NBA’s August schedule lists no Thunder games from Thursday, Dec. 3, through Saturday, Dec. 12. After the Dec. 2 game against Brooklyn, the next listed Thunder game is Sunday, Dec. 13, against Toronto at home. The Emirates NBA Cup knockout rounds fall in that span, and whether the Thunder play in them depends on their Cup group results, which are not known yet.

NBA.com’s Aug. 12, 2026 Group Play release sets the Cup knockout rounds: the quarterfinals on Dec. 4 and 5 in NBA team markets, the semifinals on Dec. 8 and/or Dec. 9, and the championship on Friday, Dec. 11, at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Our NBA Cup 2026 schedule has every round.

Thunder home and road games in December 2026

The schedule splits the month into six home games and five road games. The Thunder are at home on Dec. 2, 13, 16, 22, 29 and 31. Five of the six games from Friday, Dec. 18, to Sunday, Dec. 27, are on the road: at Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, Minnesota on Christmas Day and Houston, with one home night against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, Dec. 22. The Thunder close the year at home against the Miami Heat on New Year’s Eve, Thursday, Dec. 31, at 7 p.m. CT (8 p.m. ET). Our Thunder schedule for November 2026 covers the games that come before.

Printable Thunder schedule for December 2026

Yes. The one-page sheet lists all 11 December games with the opponent, home or away, ET and CT times and national TV. Keep it next to the December 2026 printable calendar or add the games to a printable weekly calendar.

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