Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett will have to wait to make their regular season return to Boston.
The Nets won’t make a trip to TD Garden — the first time Pierce will be there in something other than Celtics colors — until Jan. 26, one of the highlights of the Nets season schedule released last night.
As expected, the Nets will be prominently featured with 25 games set to be aired on national television, including 17 on either ESPN or TNT.
The two teams will face off for the first time this season in Brooklyn on Dec. 10, a few weeks after Pierce, Garnett, Jason Terry and new Clippers coach Doc Rivers will be reunited for the first time since last season ended when the Nets travel to Los Angeles on Nov. 16.
In an odd scheduling quirk, the Nets will both begin and end their season in Cleveland. The Nets open on Oct. 30 against the Cavaliers, before wrapping up there on April 16.
The Nets will face the defending champion Heat four times, beginning with their home opener Nov. 1.
The Nets will take another another long West Coast trip this season, as they’ll have an 18-day gap between home games from Feb. 12 through March 3, including a seven-game road trip that overlaps each side of the All-Star break.
After playing in Chicago on Feb. 13 — the final night of action before the All-Star Game that weekend in New Orleans — the Nets will head west to play Utah, Golden State, the Lakers, Portland and Denver before a game in Milwaukee on March 1.
Unlike last season, the Nets and Knicks will also get a chance to see each other late in the season, as the two teams will play twice in the final two weeks of the season — April 2 at Madison Square Garden and again on April 15, which happens to be the second-to-last day of the regular season, at Barclays Center. The intra-city rivals will also face each other on Dec. 5 in Brooklyn and Jan. 20 in Manhattan.