Sports fans will receive the gift of live TV sports events on Christmas Day, courtesy of the NBA and NFL.

On the basketball court, the NBA will offer five games on December 25 that will air on ABC and ESPN, beginning with the Philadelphia 76-ers-New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Lakers-Dallas Mavericks afternoon games, followed by the Milwaukee Bucks-Boston Celtics, Memphis Grizzlies-Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns-Denver Nuggets contests.

On the gridiron, the NFL will offer three Christmas day games, including Green Bay Packers-Miami Dolphins (Fox), Denver Broncos-Los Angeles Rams (CBS) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Arizona Cardinals (NBC).

The NFL on Saturday will offer five early afternoon regional games on Fox and CBS, followed by two late afternoon contests (Washington Commanders-San Francisco 49'ers on CBS, and Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys on Fox) as well as an NFL Network primetime game (Las Vegas Raiders-Pittsburgh Steelers.)

On the college football bowl front, Middle Tennessee will face San Diego State in the Hawaii Bowl on ESPN. ■

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Fox’s live Emmy Awards telecast was a big hit on social media Sunday night, easily beating out all other non-sports shows for Twitter traffic, according to Nielsen.

The three-hour 67th Emmy Awards, in which HBO won 14 awards including the best drama award for Game Of Thrones, show drew more than 1 million Tweets reaching a unique Twitter audience of more than 8.5 million users, according to the Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings chart.

The Emmy’s strong social media performance didn’t help the telecast’s viewership numbers. The telecast was down 16% compared to last year’s festivities, according to Nielsen fast national numbers.

The WWE’s WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view event was a distant second, generating 267,000 tweets and reaching 1.5 million unique users. AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead drew 46,000 tweets that were viewed by 1.1 million unique Twitter users.

On the sports side, live NFL games populated Nielsen’s top five most social telecasts, led by Fox’s Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles NFL telecast, which generated 1.1 million Tweets reaching 7.3 million unique Twitter users, according to Nielsen.