ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic will start the 2025-26 season at home against the Miami Heat on Oct. 22 and will have three games apiece on new national TV broadcast partner NBC and on ESPN, according to the schedule released Thursday by the NBA and the team.

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The Magic and the rest of the NBA on Thursday released their schedules for the 2025-26 regular season

Orlando has three games each on NBC and ESPN this season, plus four on streaming services Peacock and Prime Video

The team opens its season Oct. 22 at Kia Center against the Miami Heat

The Magic’s schedule includes 14 sets of back-to-back games and matchups with the Grizzlies in Berlin and London

Four of Orlando’s games also will be carried on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock, and four of its games will be on Prime Video, including against the Memphis Grizzlies in Berlin on Jan. 15 and in London on Jan. 18. Prime is part of the league’s 11-year, $76 billion media rights agreements that begin this season with ESPN, Amazon and NBC.

The broadcast schedule reflects higher expectations for the team in 2025-26 following the additions of guards Desmond Bane and Tyus Jones and draft picks Jase Richardson and Noah Penda in the offseason. The Magic had to fight to get a 41-41 record and into the playoffs in 2024-25 during an injury-plagued season.

The Magic have 14 sets of back-to-back games, which means they play games on consecutive days in 28 of their 82 games during the season. Five of those back-to-back sets will be played at home at Kia Center.

Their busiest month will be March, when the Magic play 17 games, but they also have 14 in November.

Through the end of 2025, they have a balanced schedule of home and road games. They end 2025 on New Year’s Eve against the Pacers in Indiana.

Orlando has two four-game home stands, the longest of the season. They are from February 5-11, just before the NBA All-Star break, and from Feb. 26 to March 5. Their longest road trip is five games in nine days from Oct. 27 to Nov. 4, but all those games are in the Eastern Conference. They also have two four-game road trips against Western Conference teams from Dec. 18 to Dec. 23 and right after the All-Star break from Feb. 19 to Feb. 24. 

The Magic’s first game against the defending champion Thunder is Feb. 3 in Oklahoma City, and the teams will play again in Orlando on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Orlando will face No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks at home on March 5 and in Dallas on April 3.

Orlando’s NBA Cup Group Play games are Nov. 7 against the Boston Celtics in Orlando, Nov. 14 vs. the Brooklyn Nets at Kia Center, on NBC against the 76ers in Philadelphia on Nov. 25 and on Nov. 28 in Detroit against the Pistons. The final two games on the Magic’s NBA Cup schedule will be determined after group play. Eight teams advance to the knockout round, and those games will be decided by the results of group play. The quarterfinals are Dec. 9-10, with the semifinals on Dec. 13 and the Cup championship Dec. 16 in Las Vegas. The 22 teams that do not qualify for the knockout round play Dec. 11-12 and Dec. 14-15. Teams that lose in the quarterfinals also play Dec. 14-15.

Since the 82-game schedule cannot fit four games against every Eastern Conference team and the NBA requires team to face divisional foes four times each, Orlando only plays three regular-season games this season against the Nets, the Indiana Pacers, the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the 76ers and the Toronto Raptors.

The Magic will close the regular season on the road, with games against the Bulls in Chicago on April 10 and vs. the Celtics in Boston on April 12.

Single-game tickets for Orlando’s home games go on sale Friday at 1 p.m. and can be purchased online on the Magic website, at the Kia Center box office on Church Street in downtown Orlando or via Ticketmaster at Ticketmaster.com/Magic.

Magic 2025-26 Regular-Season Schedule

October

Oct. 22 vs. Miami, 7 p.m.
Oct. 24 vs. Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Oct. 25 vs. Chicago, 7 p.m.
Oct. 27 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Oct. 29 at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Oct. 30 at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

November        

Nov. 1 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Nov. 4 at Atlanta, 8 p.m. (NBC)
Nov. 7 vs. Boston, 7 p.m. (NBA Cup Group Play)
Nov. 9 vs. Boston, 6 p.m.
Nov. 10 vs. Portland, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12 at New York, 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Nov. 14 vs. Brooklyn, 7 p.m. (NBA Cup Group Play)
Nov. 16 at Houston, 7 p.m.
Nov. 18 vs. Golden State, 7 p.m.
Nov. 20 vs. L.A. Clippers, 7 p.m.
Nov. 22 vs. New York, 5 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Boston, 6 p.m.
Nov. 25 at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. (NBC, NBA Cup Group Play)
Nov. 28 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. (NBA Cup Group Play)

December

Dec. 1 vs. Chicago, 7:30 p.m. (Peacock)
Dec. 3 vs. San Antonio, 7 p.m.
Dec. 5 vs. Miami, 7 p.m.
Dec. 7 at New York, noon
Dec. 9-16 Emirates NBA Cup, TBA
Dec. 18 at Denver, 9 p.m.
Dec. 20 at Utah, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 at Golden State, 10 p.m.
Dec. 23 at Portland, 10 p.m.
Dec. 26 vs. Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Dec. 27 vs. Denver, 7 p.m.
Dec. 29 at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 31 at Indiana, 3 p.m.

January

Jan. 2 at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Jan. 4 vs. Indiana, 3 p.m.
Jan. 6 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Jan. 7 at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 9 vs. Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Jan. 11 vs. New Orleans, 3 p.m.
Jan. 15 vs. Memphis in Berlin, 2 p.m. (Prime)
Jan. 18 at Memphis in London, noon (Prime)
Jan. 22 vs. Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Jan. 24 vs. Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Jan. 26 at Cleveland, 7 p.m. (Peacock)
Jan. 28 at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 30 vs. Toronto, 7 p.m.

February 

Feb. 1 at San Antonio, 4 p.m.
Feb. 3 at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Feb. 5 vs. Brooklyn, 7 p.m.
Feb. 7 vs. Utah, 7 p.m.
Feb. 9 vs. Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. (Peacock)
Feb. 11 vs. Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Feb. 13-18 NBA All-Star break
Feb. 19 at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Feb. 21 at Phoenix, 5 p.m.
Feb. 22 at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m.
Feb. 24 at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Feb. 26 vs. Houston, 7:30 p.m. (Prime)

March                

March 1 vs. Detroit, 6 p.m.
March 3 vs. Washington, 7 p.m.
March 5 vs. Dallas, 7 p.m.
March 7 at Minnesota, 3 p.m. (Prime)
March 8 at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
March 11 vs. Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
March 12 vs. Washington, 7 p.m.
March 14 at Miami, 8 p.m.
March 16 at Atlanta, 7 p.m. (Peacock)
March 17 vs. Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
March 19 at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
March 21 vs. L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.
March 23 vs. Indiana, 7 p.m.
March 24 at Cleveland, 8 p.m. (NBC)
March 26 vs. Sacramento, 7 p.m.
March 29 at Toronto, 6 p.m.
March 31 vs. Phoenix, 7 p.m.

April     

April 1 vs. Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
April 3 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
April 5 at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
April 6 vs. Detroit, 7 p.m.
April 8 vs. Minnesota, 7 p.m.
April 10 at Chicago, 8 p.m.
April 12 at Boston, 6 p.m.