Even though the regular season is 82 games and spans several months in the tough Western Conference, every game takes on even more significance.

The NBA schedule will have a full slate of six games on TV for January 6th, two of which will be nationally televised on NBC and Peacock.

It’s an ostensibly random matchup, aside from their origins in league expansion and their darker shades of blue. But for this time and place, the Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies make a cool pairing as the NBA’s first regular-season game in Germany.