The NBA schedule on Thursday has three games and all of them are solid matchups, as the Brooklyn Nets and Atlanta Hawks are playing in London, while the TNT doubleheader has the New York Knicks playing the Indiana Pacers and that will be at 7 pm and the second matchup has the Oklahoma City Thunder playing against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center.

The Thursday schedule has three games on the calendar and on Friday there is a full slate of games with two on ESPN, including the Los Angeles Clippers playing the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden and then the Golden State Warriors visiting the Oklahoma City Thunder in the late matchup. Both the Thunder and the Knicks are playing national games back to back and the rest of the schedule on Friday has a number of good matchups, including the Lakers visiting the Celtics and the Portland Trail Blazers matching up against the San Antonio Spurs in a battle of two of the best teams in the west.

The Pacers come into the matchup first in the eastern conference by a few games over the Miami Heat and now four teams are over .500 in the conference with those two and the Hawks and Raptors the other teams. The west has a number of top teams and the Spurs are currently in first ahead of the Blazers, Oklahoma City Thunder and the Clippers, while the Rockets are next in the standings.

Here is a look at the standings in each conference and the schedule for ESPN.