The National Basketball League is playing a match on Christmas Day for the first time this year, but Christmas Day sport is something of a staple in Australia's sporting history, including two previous Test matches at the Adelaide Oval.
— played their first match against Arundel Coulthard Foundry on Christmas Day in 1917, with 10,000 supporters turning up to Preston North End's Deepdale stadium to watch.The most-famous match to take place on Christmas Day though was supposed to have taken place in no man's land in 1914, when German and British troops stopped their fighting to play a number of impromptu matches between the trenches.
Five NBA matches are scheduled for Christmas Day: New York Knicks vs Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks vs LA Lakers, Celtics vs Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors vs Memphis Grizzlies and Denver Nuggets vs Phoenix Suns. The NBA has been hosting matches on Christmas Day since 1947, its second season, and has been hosting five games every year since 2008.
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