Schedule release day is more than a date on the calendar. It’s the unveiling of the season’s blueprint. It maps the rhythms and hurdles ahead, from grueling back-to-backs to extended road swings, from holiday showcases to pivotal home stands. Every storyline waiting to unfold now has its coordinates.
For the Phoenix Suns, the path for 2025–26 has been drawn. We know the when and the where, the peaks and the valleys, and the stretches that will test both endurance and chemistry.
As always, I’ll start with the visual. Here’s the full season schedule laid out in one (hopefully clean) graphic.
The Suns’ 2025–26 schedule doesn’t pull any punches. The year begins with a quick test of stamina with six games in just ten days out of the gate. It’s a start that could set the tone or bury early momentum if the legs aren’t ready.
The longest true home stand comes later, a five-game stretch from January 25 through February 1. By contrast, the cruelest stretch away from Phoenix runs six games, January 13 through January 23, a trip that doubles as their longest absence from PHX Arena. And that’s before you factor in the 25-day marathon from December 26 to January 20 where the Suns never get two consecutive days off.
They’ll navigate 16 back-to-backs, and in nearly half of those (seven) they’re hopping time zones in between. The schedule-makers only handed them one true “baseball series,” both on the road in New Orleans right after Christmas, and not a single home-and-home set. They do, however, run into the same opponents in tight windows: the Clippers twice in three days, Utah twice in four, and Golden State twice in a two-day span.
National TV exposure is light compared to recent years: five on NBC, three on Peacock, and just one on ESPN. The lone neutral-site spotlight is February 19 in Austin against the Spurs, a change of scenery in the heart of the playoff push.
Matinee basketball pops up three times, breaking the usual night-game rhythm. And the playoff-caliber gauntlet isn’t spread evenly. The team has distinct runs of facing nothing but postseason teams from last year, some lasting three games in a row.
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