The NBA schedule on Sunday has the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks in action and those games come after the Lakers and Toronto Raptors played far away in Canada from Los Angeles to kick things off in the afternoon.
The first match of the evening has the Boston Celtics playing the Orlando Magic and that game starts up at 6 pm and is in Florida and then at 7 pm the Oklahoma City Thunder will be playing at home against the Sacramento Kings at 7 pm. Kevin Durant has been playing very well this season for OKC and at the same time the Milwaukee Bucks and the San Antonio Spurs will tip off and comes at 7 pm from Texas. The schedule finishes up on Sunday night with the Denver Nuggets playing against the Phoenix Suns and that game starts up at 8 pm and those games are on before the busy Monday schedule with Brooklyn and New York playing the Martin Luther King Jr. Day game and the Knicks and Nets will be playing at Madison Square Garden in what has become a traditional game.
The Pacers remain in first place in the eastern conference with the Miami Heat right behind and the only teams with winning records besides those two have the Raptors and Hawks and then Washington is in fifth place ahead of Chicago, with Detroit and Brooklyn rounding out the top eight. The Knicks have some ground to make up still in the east and in the west the Portland Trail blazers and the San Antonio Spurs are in first place in the west right above the Oklahoma City Thunder.