Homecomings will be regular highlight this season

NEW YORK - DeMarcus Cousins will make an early-season trip back to Sacramento, while Gordon Hayward will wait almost the full campaign to see Utah again.

Chris Paul's return to his old Clippers home is part of a Martin Luther King Day tripleheader that includes another NBA Finals rematch, while Paul George and Jimmy Butler also learned the dates of their return games on Monday when the NBA released its full 2017-18 schedule.

For the first time in league history, it features no teams playing four games in five nights.