{"id":714565,"date":"2026-04-20T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:32:00","slug":"nuggets-to-face-pacers-in-nba-mexico-city-game-next-year-denver-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714565\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets to face Pacers in NBA Mexico City Game next year \u2013 Denver Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets will travel south of the border next season, facing the Indiana Pacers in a regular-season game at Arena CDMX on Nov. 7, the NBA announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be the league\u2019s 35th in Mexico since 1992, the most of any country outside the United States and Canada. It will take place during the week of Dia de Muertos celebrations for the third straight year, with the holiday theme woven into a specially designed court and in-arena fan activations.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/nba\/denver-nuggets\/wolves-need-to-know-26\/2129876\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets<\/a>\u2018 second game played in Mexico and first time they\u2019ve played overseas since they played also the Pacers in London in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a battle of two recent Finals teams in the Nuggets (2023 winners) and the Pacers (2025.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that the Nuggets were chosen to compete in The Mexico City Game next season,\u201d KSE President of Team and Media Operations Kevin Demoff <a href=\"https:\/\/pr.nba.com\/nuggets-pacers-nba-mexico-city-game-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said in a news statement.<\/a> \u201cAs a team led by two electrifying stars born outside of the U.S., we are honored anytime we can showcase Nuggets basketball to NBA fans around the world as well as continue to grow KSE\u2019s global footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game will air live in Mexico on ESPN and across Latin America, reaching more than 200 countries and territories. It just goes to show how much the Nuggets profile has increased since Jokic began his ascension.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA and Zignia Live today announced that The NBA Mexico City Game 2026 will feature the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers playing a regular-season game at the Arena CDMX on Saturday, Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Full release: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ajzVasYr8F\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ajzVasYr8F<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jHsB0Ze277\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jHsB0Ze277<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2044901912269541877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shapalicious\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @Shapalicious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DenverSports1043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscribe-Banner.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscribe-Banner_DS.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/daily\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DenverSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DenverSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets will travel south of the border next season, facing the Indiana Pacers in a regular-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-714565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116437052146108456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}