2024-25 Lakers schedule features Christmas in San Francisco and January visit to Inglewood

The Los Angeles Lakers are set to kick off the upcoming season by facing off against the Minnesota Timberwolves at home. On Christmas Day, they will travel to San Francisco to take on the Golden State Warriors. Fans can mark their calendars for January 19th, when the Lakers will make their debut at the Clippers' new arena. It's sure to be an exciting start to the season for Lakers fans everywhere.

(Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press)

The league officially released the full 82-game schedule for 2024-25 season on Thursday, with the Lakers also announcing one piece of significant business. Opening night against the Timberwolves will be Oct. 22.

The team will retire Michael Cooper’s No. 21 jersey on Jan. 13 during a game against Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs. Cooper was elected to the Hall of Fame this spring and will be enshrined in October.

New coach JJ Redick will have his first game against the defending champion Celtics on Jan. 23 and his first in Boston on March 8.

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The team opens the season with three games against West rivals at home — Minnesota, Phoenix and Sacramento — before heading out on a five-game road trip. It’s the second-longest trip of the team’s season behind the annual Grammy trip at the end of January.

That trip, though, is less taxing than in recent years because it now ends with a game against the Clippers in Inglewood.

The Lakers' first trip to the new Intuit Dome comes on Sunday, Jan. 19. The Clippers are back in Crypto.com Arena for two-straight games on Feb. 28 and March 2.

The season ends in Portland on April 13.

The Lakers currently have virtually the same roster as they did a season ago, with rookies Dalton Knecht and Bronny James as the only new additions (with Taurean Prince and Spencer Dinwiddie outgoing).

The team begins its preseason Oct. 4 in Palm Springs against the Timberwolves.

October
22: vs. Minnesota, 7; 25: vs. Phoenix, 7; 26: vs. Sacramento, 7:30; 28: at Phoenix, 7; 30: at Cleveland, 4.

November
1: at Toronto, 4:30; 4: at Detroit, 4:30; 6: at Memphis, 5; 8: vs. Philadelphia, 7; 10: vs. Toronto, 6:30; 13: vs. Memphis, 7; 15: at San Antonio, 4:30; 16: at New Orleans, 5; 19: vs. Utah, 7:30; 21: vs. Orlando, 7:30; 23: vs. Denver, 7:30; 26: at Phoenix, 7; 27: at San Antonio, 5:30; 29: vs. Oklahoma City, 7.

December
1: at Utah, 5; 2: at Minnesota, 5; 4: at Miami, 4:30; 6: at Atlanta, 4:30; 8: vs. Portland, 6:30; 19: at Sacramento, 7; 21: at Sacramento, 3; 23: vs. Detroit, 7:30; 25: at Golden State, 5; 28: vs. Sacramento, 7:30; 31: vs. Cleveland, 6.

January
2: vs. Portland, 7:30; 3: vs. Atlanta, 7:30; 5: at Houston, 4; 7: at Dallas, 4:30; 9: vs. Charlotte, 7:30; 11: vs. San Antonio, 7:30; 13: vs. San Antonio, 7:30; 15: vs. Miami, 7; 17: vs. Brooklyn, 7:30; 19: at Clippers, 6; 21: vs. Washington, 7:30; 23: vs. Boston, 7; 25: at Golden State, 5:30; 27: at Charlotte, 4; 28: at Philadelphia, 4:30; 30: at Washington, 4.

February
1: at New York, 5:30; 4: at Clippers, 7; 6: vs. Golden State, 7; 8: vs. Indiana, 1; 11: vs. Utah, 7:30; 12: at Utah, 6; 20: at Portland, 7; 22: at Denver, 5:30; 25: vs. Dallas, 7; 27: vs. Minnesota, 7:30; 28: vs. Clippers, 7.

March
2: vs. Clippers, 6:30; 4: vs. New Orleans, 7:30; 6: vs. New York, 7; 8: at Boston, 5:30; 10: at Brooklyn, 4:30; 13: at Milwaukee, 4:30; 14: at Denver, 6:30; 16: vs. Phoenix, 12:30; 18: vs. Milwaukee, 7:30; 19: vs. Denver, 7; 22: vs. Chicago, 7:30; 24: at Orlando, 4; 26: at Indiana, 4:30; 27: at Chicago, 5; 29: at Memphis, 5; 31: vs. Houston, 7:30.

April
3: vs. Golden State, 7; 4: vs. New Orleans, 7:30; 6: at Oklahoma City, 12:30; 8: at Oklahoma City, 5; 9: at Dallas, 4:30; 11: vs. Houston, 7:30; 13: at Portland, 12:30.

All times PDT

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.