The Brooklyn Nets recently found out their entire schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 NBA season (except for two games to be scheduled at a later time due to the NBA Cup). Brooklyn understands that they will not be getting much exposure on a national stage, but Nets fans can also be interested in when the team is expected to face the highs and lows of their impending season.
HoopsHype’s Cyro Asseo put together a list of when all 30 NBA teams can expect to see the peaks and valleys of their schedule, something that each team would like to know ahead of time. For Brooklyn, the toughest portion of their schedule is actually the opening month of the season based off the strength of schedule index that Asseo used for the article.
“We used average over/under win projections from the most popular sportsbooks to build a month-by-month Strength of Schedule (SOS) for every NBA team in 2025-26,” Asseo wrote in part explaining how the metric was put together. The Nets only have five games in October, but they will be facing the Charlotte Hornets (season-opener), Cleveland Cavaliers (home-opener), San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, and Atlanta Hawks.
Based on the standings for the 2024-25 season, the Cavaliers and Rockets were two of the better teams in the league, but Houston significantly changed their team with them trading for Kevin Durant. The Hawks, Spurs, and Hornets were teams with losing records, but Atlanta switched things up after trading for Boston Celtics forward Kristaps Porzingis.
San Antonio finished the campaign with a 34-48 record, but star center Victor Wembanyama had his season shortened due to blood clots. Charlotte is expected to be one of the worst teams in the league once again despite having some talented young players in LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller, and Miles Bridges. Brooklyn is most likely going to be in the Lottery after next season, but October is expected to be a tough beginning to what could be a long season.