The Cleveland Charge will open the 2026-27 NBA G League season at home on Tuesday, Nov. 10, hosting the Motor City Cruise at 7 p.m.
The Cavaliers’ G League affiliate released its schedule Friday, and the early stretch includes another home date at Public Hall against the Sioux Falls Skyforce on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 5 p.m. The Charge also set six priority dates on June 10, and their regular-season finale is scheduled for home on Saturday, March 27, 2027.
Home dates should be a steady draw this season. Of the 24 at Public Hall, 17 fall on weekends: six Fridays, eight Saturdays and three Sundays.
Cleveland’s longest homestand runs six games from March 3-19, while its longest road swing stretches across six consecutive games from Jan. 13-24.
The calendar also includes a New Year’s Eve matinee at Public Hall, with the Delaware Blue Coats coming in for a 1 p.m. tip. Another notable stop comes on March 3, when Rocket Arena hosts the STEM Day game at 11 a.m. against the College Park Skyhawks, with the event expected to bring in thousands of students from Northeast Ohio.
There’s a first-time destination on the slate, too. Kenner, La., appears on a Charge schedule for the first time, with Cleveland set to play Laketown Squadron there on Feb. 16 and 18. New Orleans relocated the affiliate from Birmingham, Ala., in March to the 3,700-seat Pontchartrain Center.
The G League’s format is a little different this year. Conference crossover games are gone, so teams will play only opponents from their own conference.
Fourteen Cleveland games are part of the Tip-Off Tournament, split into four regional pods. The winners from each region advance to the Winter Showcase bracket, along with the four best teams by winning percentage.
That Showcase is set for Dec. 19-22 in Orlando, and records reset to 0-0 once the event begins. Each team will play two games there that count toward the regular season, which then continues with 34 more games. Cleveland’s two Showcase opponents have already been determined and assigned.
The playoff path remains straightforward: the top eight teams in each conference get in, and the Finals are scheduled for April 2027.
Eli Kell-Abrams is heading into his second season as head coach after being hired on Aug. 26, 2025, as the franchise’s eighth head coach. Before that, he spent two seasons as the Portland Trail Blazers’ head video coordinator. GM Liron Fanan was named NBA G League Basketball Executive of the Year on April 1.
The roster also carries some recent hardware. Tristan Enaruna won NBA G League Most Improved Player, and six days later Killian Hayes landed on the All-NBA G League Second Team.
Enaruna is one of three Cavaliers on two-way contracts, along with Riley Minix and Ernest Udeh Jr. Those deals are worth $678,882 this season, and a two-way player can be active for up to 50 of Cleveland’s 82 NBA games. None of those contracts can be signed after March 4.
The franchise began as the Canton Charge in 2011 and moved into Public Hall for the 2024-25 season.
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