It may have seemed like the NBA Finals just ended, but the league has already released its schedule for the upcoming season. The top ten games of next year are chalk-full of LeBron James, Kevin Love, and their Cavaliers, because, let’s be honest here folks, who doesn’t want to see Cleveland’s new team make-up in action? They are now the best team in the East on paper, although with Derek Rose back and running (literally) at full force, the Chicago Bulls are not too far behind. The Spurs should be the darling of the West once again, thanks to the incredible coaching of Gregg Popovich. The Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, and L.A. Clippers should be in the mix as well. Player return storylines have mostly dominated this list, as not much else can provide quite as much drama as a former player coming back to the face the music that the fan base is sure to play for them. Per ESPN.com, here are a few highlights:

10) [new page = Charlotte Hornets at Indiana Pacers, November 19].

The talented and young yet undisciplined Lance Stephenson will make his return to Indiana and look to show the Pacers that they made a mistake by declining to show him the money. The Hornets actually will have the upper hand in this one, which would have been extremely far from the truth last season; what a difference the absence of Stephenson and Paul George makes. Anthony Davis and his mates should run all over these guys.

9) [new page = Dallas Mavericks at Houston, January 28}.

Chandler Parsons will make his return to Houston, the team that spurned and offended him by refusing to match Dallas’s contract offer. The lure of viewing Monta Ellis and James Harden vying to outduel each other on the offensive end is almost as appetizing as Tyson Chandler stepping up to guard Dwight Howard.

8) [new page = San Antonio at Cleveland, November 19].

Consider this one a pre-Thanksgiving blessing. James will lead his new (and old) team into battle against the club that gave him fits while in Miami. This might be a preview of the eventual Finals matchup next year, and we’ll really get to see how much better off (most would agree that there’s no doubt that he is) James is in Cleveland than Miami, depending on how they stack up in this game. In terms of measuring sticks, you can’t get a much better one than this.

7) [new page = Houston at Portland Trailblazers, March 11].

You can bet that Damien Lillard’s Houston-eliminating, buzzer-beating dagger during the first round of last year’s playoffs still burns fresh in the minds of Harden and Co., so the animosity that’s sure to spring up in this one should be most intriguing to say the least.

6) [new page = Chicago Bulls at L.A. Lakers, Christmas Day].

The later Christmas edition of the NBA should have plenty on intrigue as well. The Bull’s Pau Gasol will greet his old Lakers fans, and the often-unforgiving Kobe Bryant will try to make him regret, at least for one game, his decision to flee the West Coast. Derek Rose, if his knee holds out for two months of the season until then, might have something to say about that, however.

5) [new page = Milwaukee Bucks at Minnesota, November 26].

Finally we get a non-Cleveland matchup. This one is almost as good as any matchup with them, however, as it pits the top two picks in this year’s draft, per ESPN.com, according to against each other: Jabari Parker of the Bucks, and Andrew Wiggins of the Timberwolves. The presumed futures of the NBA will collide on this night, and although both squads probably won’t provide the best basketball we’ll see on the season, they might end up guarding each other, and that, regardless of the teams, is a matchup worth watching.

4) [new page = Cleveland at Oklahoma, December 11].

Watching the two best players on the planet square off is always a guarantee to supply insurmountable joy, and this could be a potential Finals matchup as well, in the unlikely event that the Thunder slip past the Spurs. Folks can expect fireworks and high-quality basketball in this one.

3) [new page = Bucks at Brooklyn Nets, November 19].

The din created by the Brooklyn fan base could be deafening when Jason Kidd enters the arena, just months after fleeing the Nets for the younger Bucks. The ethics of what Kidd pulled were questioned by many, and he’s sure to hear about it each second of the roughly two and a half hours he will be forced to spend in the Barclays Center.

2) [new page = Cleveland at Minnesota Timberwolves on January 31].

Celebrate the end of January (and thus one more month closer to the playoffs) with Kevin Love’s own return to the team that drafted him. Will they burn #42 jerseys outside of the Target Center, much like folks in Cleveland torched a certain players #23 jersey (you can bet those who did are fully regretting it now) not too long ago? Will Love drop 50 on his old team? Maybe not, but it’s a safe bet that the Cavs as a team might put up three times that much in that game.

1) [new page = Cleveland at Miami Heat on Christmas Day].

What better present could fans ask for then the King returning to the second team that he burned in his career? Everyone’s reaction will be very interesting to watch, and it’s 2:30 Eastern start will ensure that you’ll have enough time to open up all of Santa’s generosity before plopping down on the couch to watch the newly-built Cavaliers dismantle LeBron James’ old team.