Now that LeBron James has made his decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Silver and the NBA office can finalize next season’s NBA schedule.

One assumes the 76ers, James’ new team, will be playing on marquee nights like opening night and Christmas Day.

Which raises an important question: Who will they play on each night?

Let’s get granular with predictions on the national TV schedule:

OPENING WEEK

Opening night (Oct. 20, NBC/Peacock): 76ers at Knicks (ring ceremony) | Thunder at Spurs

I don’t have to explain the whys of the first one, right? Meanwhile, maybe the best rivalry in the league picks up where Game 7 of the West finals last spring left off in the nightcap.

Second opening night (Oct. 21, ESPN/ABC): Heat at Celtics | Timberwolves at Warriors

Giannis Antetokounmpo restarts his chase for another ring after more than a decade in Milwaukee with a matchup against Jayson Tatum and the Celtics, who will be seeking Banner 19 next season. Then, Anthony Edwards and Steph Curry get reacquainted.

Third opening night (Oct. 22, Prime): Wizards at Mavericks | Lakers at Nuggets

The league’s last two number one overall picks, AJ Dybantsa and Cooper Flagg, square off in the first game. Then, Luka Dončić brings the Lakers to the Mile High City against Nikola Jokić and the Nuggets.

CHRISTMAS

Celtics at Knicks: New York’s hosted regularly on Christmas Day since Richie Guerin played for the Knicks.

76ers at Heat: Guess Who’s Coming Home for Roast Beast?

Mavericks at Spurs: Texas Hold ‘Em with Wemby and Coop.

Thunder at Rockets: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder square off with Kevin Durant and Company.

Timberwolves at Lakers: A showdown of two of the game’s biggest scorers and personalities.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers received $453.2 million from the NFL in the most recent fiscal year as part of the league’s national revenue-sharing model, team president Ed Policy told reporters Friday.

Extrapolated to 32 teams, which share revenue equally, the league brought in more than $14.5 billion, the majority of which came from broadcast deals. This revenue-sharing system allows the Packers, who reside in what is by far the league’s smallest market, to remain financially competitive. As the NFL’s only publicly owned franchise, the Packers are the only team required to make their finances public every year.

“It’s unique to my position that somebody in this role has to sit in front of you and talk about our finances,” Policy said, running his first financials meeting with reporters since taking over for Mark Murphy last summer. “I think it’s a good thing. I think it’s good for our shareholders to have this kind of transparency and to see how we operate.”

The Packers received $20.6 million more in national revenue from the NFL than in the prior fiscal year ($432.6 million). Their local revenue of $299.8 million was a $13.4 million increase from the previous fiscal year — despite having one fewer home game — thanks to ticketing, local sponsorships, pro shop sales and other avenues. Policy said the Packers rank in the top half of the league in local revenue.

The organization saw an operations deficit of $1.1 million due to what Policy called an “enormous increase in player costs,” stemming from the structure and timing of player contracts. In other words, payments such as Micah Parsons’ signing bonus contributed to that loss. So too did “accounting for the acceleration of previously paid compensation to players who were either traded or released throughout the course of the year.” Players falling into that category included Jaire Alexander, Kenny Clark, Rashan Gary, Elgton Jenkins and Nate Hobbs.

“Kenny Clark had, I think, two years left on his contract,” Policy said of the defensive tackle who was traded to the Dallas Cowboys as part of the deal for Parsons. “This is not cash out of our pocket — that had been paid the year before when Kenny signed his contract — but then whatever he has remaining on his contract that has not already been amortized (paying off a debt over time, as teams do in spreading out the cap hit on signing bonuses over multiple years) gets accelerated into that year. We had a number of those last year with some pretty substantial contracts.”

The Packers’ net income stood at $132.5 million, however, because of a non-operating income of $133.6 million, which rose $131.7 million from the prior fiscal year. That increase stemmed from the Packers’ share of the league’s acquisition of a 10-percent stake in ESPN in exchange for NFL Network, Policy said, in addition to sound investments in the team’s corporate reserve fund. The latter is a unique financial resource for the Packers, the only team without a deep-pocketed owner or ability to sell minority interests to private equity. Policy said the Packers have about $701 million in their corporate reserve fund after contributing between $15 million and $18 million this past fiscal year. (Other teams can raise more than $701 million in mere months by selling small stakes of their franchise, and it has taken the Packers more than 30 years to reach that figure.)

“Other teams have access to this ATM machine that we just don’t have,” Policy said.

Policy noted that the only capped expenses are player contracts, but the Packers face the challenge of keeping up with 31 other teams financially when it comes to coaching staff salaries, facility upgrades and other expenses in the ongoing NFL arms race.

“Two critical points,” Policy said. “No. 1, the Packers are in great financial shape. And then No. 2, we’re gonna continue to invest whatever it takes to field a championship-caliber team. But as we’ve been talking about … the NFL is more competitive than ever, both on and off the field. It’s getting more expensive to run an NFL team. … Candidly, I think we have to be more aggressive in terms of revenue generation going forward.

“As we all know, other NFL teams have access to some resources and some capital we don’t have access to. They’ve always had a billionaire owner, and we’ve managed to compete pretty well against them on that basis.”

The Packers recently sold the naming rights to the turf field at the entertainment district adjacent to Lambeau Field and will explore selling the naming rights to other assets, such as the practice facility across the street from the stadium. That includes Ray Nitschke Field, Clarke Hinkle Field and the Don Hutson Center, three assets without corporate attachments that are named after Packers legends. Policy emphasized that the Packers are not exploring selling the naming rights to Lambeau Field.

Policy also said the Packers will focus on bringing more major events to Lambeau Field to generate revenue. This year, popular country artist Luke Combs played two concerts there in May, and Wisconsin will face Notre Dame at Lambeau Field on Sept. 6.

Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn said on Friday night that Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York is the preferred choice of Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Al-Sheikh, WWE president and TKO board member Nick Khan and streaming service Netflix as the venue to host an Anthony Joshua versus Tyson Fury fight.

Speaking to The Athletic following the official weigh-in ahead of Joshua’s fight against Kristian Prenga on Saturday night, Hearn said: “They’ve had a decent offer from MSG. And time zones as well; I think the aim would be to do it at three o’clock in the morning UK time, which would be 10pm in the U.S. (Eastern Time)”.

If Joshua emerges victorious from his fight in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, Hearn says there is a possibility that the fight with Fury could be officially announced, despite the fact that the contract that Joshua has signed stipulates that the fight must be held in the UK.

“They want the fight in the U.S. — Turki, Nick Khan, Netflix. I think Netflix feel like it’ll do a bigger number in the U.S. if it’s on at prime time there. We want the fight in the UK. We’ve insisted that within the contract, and if that’s going to change, then we need to have a conversation about it.

“You can’t just announce that it’s in the U.S. — though they might do that — but that would be a big problem if that’s the case. So hopefully if that is what they want to do, we’ll have a chat and then see where we get to.”

Al-Sheikh is known for dropping major boxing news and fight announcements on his own social media channels — sometimes before the likes of Hearn or other promoters formally reveal them. But Hearn remains adamant that a new deal will need to be made before the fight can officially be moved to the U.S.

He claimed on Friday there are already “quite a few bits in the contract that haven’t been adhered to”, but declined to go into detail. “They’re not necessarily material breaches, but where the fight is, is a material breach.”

The sticking point of having the fight in the U.S., says Hearn, is two-fold: Firstly, he says the “feeling” has always been that London, as Joshua’s home town, is the best place for him to fight Fury: “We feel like he has massive support there.”

Fury beat Wach in Thailand on Friday (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images)

Secondly, on a financial level, the tax position is different for both fighters if the fight takes place abroad. “So the net amount is completely different,” says Hearn, adding that “could be part of the conversation” if the contract is amended.

He insists the finances are a secondary factor here though, behind the principle and the “feeling.”

“If this was previously between Matchroom and Queensberry, and we’d signed a contract, and then Frank Warren said, ‘We’re changing the venue, we’re going to another country,’ we would never agree a deal.

“But Turki is a partner, and so we’re not saying ‘The fight’s off.’ What we’re saying is, you can’t just change a contract. We’ve got to talk about it, for a number of different reasons. Financial is a basic one. But a lot of it is more on the feeling of AJ. He asked for it to be in the UK. That’s why it’s in the contract.

“If you don’t want the fight in America because you’re hell-bent on it being in the UK, something’s got to change your mind. I can’t go to AJ and say, ‘By the way mate, I know you want it in the UK. And it’s going to cost you more money to go to the U.S. but it’s in the U.S.’ And when he asks why? I go, ‘Well, Netflix want it.’

“He’d say, ‘I don’t give a f***.’

“We’ve agreed it, so it’s not a case of how much are you going to pay us? But that is part of the conversation.”