The Christmas Day game, as one of the NBA's well-known successful marketing strategies, is always promoted as a highlight of the early season to the fans.
The league emphasizes promoting those matchups with strong storylines.
As the top team in the Eastern Conference, the Milwaukee Bucks with a record of 22 wins and 7 losses will face the New Jersey Nets, ranked third in the Eastern Conference tonight.
From the moment Yu Fei was sent to Milwaukee during the off-season, it was destined that the Bucks would appear in this year's Christmas Day game.
The only question was which team would be arranged to play against the Bucks.
Yu Fei, as a popular star, has only played for less than a season and a half, but he's already made numerous enemies; one could say that any team you chose for him would be worth watching.
The choice of the Nets as opponents was mainly due to the incidents that happened in the first round of the playoffs last season between Yu Fei at the Wizards and the Nets.