LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers in the second half at Crypto.com Arena on February 08, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles Lakers fans are nothing if not dedicated, but figuring how and when to watch each Lakers game on TV or a mobile device can prove trickier than decoding Darvin Ham’s playbook. The Lakers are currently sitting well within playoff contention, which means fans aren’t going to want to miss a single game as the season heats up.
Does every Los Angeles Lakers game air nationally?
Nationally televised NBA games can be seen on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and NBATV. But not every NBA game gets a national broadcast.
The Los Angeles Lakers have one of the most dedicated fan bases in the league. They also have a roster of A-list talent, on the court and in the stands, which means the Lakers get VIP treatment when it comes to the league doling out those nationally televised games.
For the 2023-2024 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors have the most nationally televised games with 29, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers who have 28 games televised nationally this season. The Boston Celtics have 26 games televised nationally and the Phoenix Suns follow with 25. That makes sense considering each team’s star power and strong fan base.
What you need to know about watching every Lakers game
Each NBA team has a local affiliate which airs its games for the local market. That’s where the detective works comes in. If you’re a Los Angeles Lakers fan living out of the Southern California television market, for example, you won’t be able watch the Lakers play with a cable subscription alone unless the game is nationally televised. (You can watch some local games with an HDTV antenna.)
How to watch out-of-market Los Angeles Lakers games
You can’t watch out-of-market Los Angeles Lakers games with just a cable subscription, unless the game is nationally televised. To watch the Lakers play if you’re not in the Southern California area or the Lakers aren’t playing your local NBA franchise, you’ll need a streaming platform or app such as NBA League Pass or Sling TV’s NBA Season Pass.
If you want to catch out-of-market Los Angeles Lakers games during the 2024 season, NBA League Pass gives you the most access to the most Lakers games this season.
With the NBA League Pass, you can watch out-of-market Lakers games live and on-demand, plus get round the clock NBA TV coverage. With an upgraded NBA League Pass Premium subscription, you get everything included in NBA League Pass, plus you’ll be able to stream live and on-demand games on up to three different devices at a time and get access to the in-arena stream for the game of your choice.
NBA League Pass is currently priced at $15 per month. NBA League Pass Premium costs $23 per month. NBA League Pass offers a seven-day free trial.
What you need to know about watching the Lakers on NBA League Pass: NBA League Pass has some blackout games, which means certain local games and all nationally broadcast games will be available three hours after the live broadcast. All subscription tiers include access to live radio broadcasts of all NBA games.
If you have don’t have cable TV that includes ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and NBATV one of the most cost-effective ways to stream Lakers games this year, and still get access to local programming, is through a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer offers access to 46 channels, including TNT and ESPN, plus local ABC affiliates (where available) with its Orange + Blue Tier plan. But what really sets Sling TV apart is its NBA Season Pass offering, that give you special access to watch every out-of-market NBA game live.
Sling TV has a special NBA Prepay Bundle offer for those interested in NBA League Pass: You can prepay for three months of the NBA League Pass basketball streaming service, and get all the channels in the Orange tier, for $135. That works out to $45 per month. (One month of Orange + NBA League Pass regularly costs $55, so this combo plan is the best value.)
NBA League Pass is available as a $15 per month a la carte offering, though you’ll pay just $10 for your first month. You can learn more by tapping the button below.
You can learn more by tapping the button below.
Top features of Sling TV Orange + NBA League Pass:
There are 46 channels to watch in total, including local NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available).
You get access to most local NBA and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage, perfect for recording all the biggest games of the season.
With Sling TV Orange + NBA League Pass, you’ll get access to all the NBA games you want to watch (minus local blackout games), plus network programs airing on NBC, ABC, Fox and more. It’s the most cost-effective way to watch out-of-market NBA games and local network programming.
You can catch the NBA 2024 season live on FuboTV. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to local and nationally aired NBA games, not to mention almost every NFL game next season. Packages include your local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates, TNT, ESPN, NBC, the NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just the 2024 NBA season, all without a cable subscription.
To watch the 2024 NBA season without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to NBA games, offers college football, NFL, NCAA March Madness, MLB, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. Fubo’s Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
There are no contracts with Fubo — you can cancel at any time.
You can watch sporting events up to 72 hours after they air with Fubo Lookback.
The Pro tier includes 186 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
Fubo includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
You can watch the Lakers with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including both TNT and ABC, so you’ll be able to catch nationally televised NBA games and your local games, while still being able to watch local network programming. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every local and nationally televised NBA game on every network this season with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch NFL games next season.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+. It’s priced at $77.
What is the NBA app?
The NBA appis a terrific companion for die hard Lakers fans who want to stay up to date on the latest scores. You’ll be able to download the NBA app on your phone or mobile device and get the latest news, stories and highlights of what’s happening in the league now. You can find the NBA app on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Can I watch the NBA on ESPN+?
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to watch the 2024 NBA season with the ESPN+ app. ESPN+ does not include access to the ESPN network. It is a separate sports-centric service, with separate sports programming.
How to get tickets to a Los Angeles Lakers game
Adam Sandler, Jackie Sandler and Sadie Sandler attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets at Crypto.com Arena on February 08, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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If you want to get one seat closer to LeBron, Anthony Davis, D’Angelo Russell and Spencer Dinwiddie than your streaming app can take you, seeing the team play in person is a dream of every Lakers fan. At home, the Lakers play at Crypto Arena (formerly Staples Center) in downtown Los Angeles. Whether you want to see the Lakers play in Los Angeles or on the road, you can score tickets to a Los Angeles Lakers game through Ticketmaster.
Los Angeles Lakers 2024 regular season game schedule
Below is a complete list of the remaining games of the Los Angeles Lakers 2024 regular season. All times Eastern.
Week 18 (Feb. 19 – 25, 2024)
Thursday, Feb. 22: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Golden State Warriors, 10:00 p.m. (TNT)
Friday, Feb. 23: San Antonio Spurs vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 25: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
Week 19 (Feb. 26 – March 3)
Wednesday, Feb. 28: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Los Angeles Clippers, 10:00 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 29: Washington Wizards vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 2: Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
Week 20 (March 4 – 10)
Monday, March 4: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:30 p.m
Wednesday, March 6: Sacramento Kings vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Friday, March 8: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 10: Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
Week 21 (March 11 – 17)
Wednesday, March 13: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings, 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 16: Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
Week 22 (March 18 – 24)
Monday, March 18: Atlanta Hawks vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 24: Indiana Pacers vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:00 p.m.
Week 23 (March 25 – 31)
Tuesday, March 26: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Milwaukee Bucks, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 27: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Memphis Grizzlies, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 29: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Indiana Pacers, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 31: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Brooklyn Nets, 6:00 p.m.
Week 24 (April 1 – 7)
Tuesday, April 2: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Toronto Raptors, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 3: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Washington Wizards, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 6: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 7: Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:00 p.m.
Week 25 (April 8 – 14)
Tuesday, April 9: Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 10:00 p.m. (TNT)
Friday, April 12: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Memphis Grizzlies, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 14: Los Angeles Lakers vs. New Orleans Pelicans, 3:30 p.m.
Key dates for the 2023-2024 NBA season
Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs handles the ball during the game against the Miami Heat on February 7, 2024 at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
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Here are all the important dates for basketball fans to remember, leading up to the NBA Finals in June.
Feb. 16-18, 2024: NBA All-Star 2024 game (Indianapolis, IN)
Feb. 16-21: NBA All-Star break
March 1: Playoff Eligibility Waiver Deadline
March 30: NBA G League Regular Season ends
April 2: NBA G League Playoffs begin
April 14: NBA Regular Season ends
April 15: NBA Rosters set for NBA Playoffs 2024 (3 p.m. ET)
April 16-19: NBA Play-In Tournament
April 20: NBA 2024 Playoffs begin
April 28: NBA Early Entry Eligibility Deadline (11:59 p.m. ET)
May 6-7: Conference Semifinals begin (may move up to May 4-5)
May 12: NBA Draft Lottery presented by State Farm (Chicago, IL)
May 13-17: NBA Combine (Chicago, IL)
May 21-22: Conference Finals begin (may move up to May 19-20)
June 6: NBA Finals 2024 Game 1
June 9: NBA Finals 2024 Game 2
June 12: NBA Finals 2024 Game 3
June 14: NBA Finals 2024 Game 4
June 17: NBA Draft Early Entry Entrant Withdrawal Deadline (5 p.m. ET)
June 17: NBA Finals 2024 Game 5 (if necessary)
June 20: NBA Finals 2024 Game 6 (if necessary)
June 23: NBA Finals 2024 Game 7 (if necessary)
June 26: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (First Round)
June 27: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (Second Round)
July 12-22: NBA 2K Vegas Summer League (Las Vegas)
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Washington — President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk blew up a GOP-backed deal to fund federal agencies into March, raising the pressure on Republican congressional leaders to craft a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the holidays.
In a statement Wednesday, Trump and Vance lambasted the agreement for including provisions favored by Democrats. But the incoming president and vice president also added a new, significant wrinkle to negotiations when they urged Congress to raise or abolish the debt ceiling now, instead of next year.
“Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,” Trump and Vance said in their statement. “If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now.”
What is the debt ceiling?
Set by Congress, the debt ceiling, or limit, is the maximum amount of money the U.S. Treasury is authorized to borrow to pay debts incurred by the federal government. Lifting the debt ceiling does not authorize new spending, but instead lets the government spend money on obligations that Congress has already been approved.
Failing to address the debt ceiling could lead the U.S. to default on its debt, which would have devastating effects on the economy. The government has never defaulted, and the Treasury typically uses accounting moves, known as “extraordinary measures,” to delay breaching the debt ceiling.
While raising the debt ceiling used to be routine, legislation addressing it has in recent years been used as leverage to force policy concessions and fuel debates over government spending.
Congress last addressed the debt ceiling in June 2023 as part of a legislative package negotiated by President Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That deal suspended the debt ceiling through Jan., 1, 2025, ensuring any fight over it would take place after the 2024 elections.
The Treasury Department will likely implement extraordinary measures to stave off a default in the new year. It will also announce an “X date,” the estimated point at which the government will no longer be able to pay its obligations. The Economic Policy Innovation Center, a conservative think tank, projected in an analysis released Monday that it’s possible the debt limit will be reached by June 16.
While the Treasury Department’s use of extraordinary measures would give Congress more time to address the debt ceiling, Trump is now urging lawmakers to take action now, before he takes office.
Why does Trump want to raise the debt ceiling?
The president-elect will come into office with a legislative to-do list that includes securing the border and extending provisions of his signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was enacted in 2017 and overhauled the tax code. But a fight over the debt ceiling could complicate efforts by the Republican-led House and Senate to focus on those legislative initiatives and pass them quickly.
Trump is urging lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether, a position that some prominent Democrats have endorsed in the past.
“Number one, the debt ceiling should be thrown out entirely,” Trump said in a phone interview Thursday with CBS News’ Robert Costa. “Number two, a lot of the different things they thought they’d receive [in a recently proposed spending deal] are now going to be thrown out, 100 percent. And we’ll see what happens. We’ll see whether or not we have a closure during the Biden administration. But if it’s going to take place, it’s going to take place during Biden, not during Trump.”
Trump separately told ABC News that “there won’t be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with,” indicating any spending deal to prevent a shutdown must address the debt limit.
“If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only [injure] the person who’s president,” he told ABC News.
Whether Republicans and Democrats would go along with such a plan, though, is far from clear. GOP lawmakers in both chambers have opposed raising the debt ceiling without spending reforms, and debates over the debt limit often give way to broader fights over the federal budget, which conservatives in Congress have said is bloated and should be reduced. Plus, Democrats still control the Senate and the White House.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that shutting down the government would harm families and endanger services Americans rely on.
“Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instability across the country,” she said. “President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance ordered Republicans to shut down the government and they are threatening to do just that — while undermining communities recovering from disasters, farmers and ranchers, and community health centers.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested Democrats would not go along with a plan pushed by Republicans to raise the debt limit.
“GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check. Hard pass,” the New York Democrat wrote on the social media platform Bluesky.
Jeffries also told reporters “the debt limit issue and discussion is premature at best.”
Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.
Jesse Zanger is managing editor of CBS New York. Jesse has previously worked for the Fox News Channel and Spectrum News NY1. He covers regional news around the Tri-State Area, with a particular focus on breaking news and extreme weather.
