SAN FRANCISCO — The Stephen Curry show is still a sure television ratings bet even when the Golden State Warriors are not. That was made clear once again Thursday, when the NBA released its full schedule and the Warriors, thanks to Curry’s greatness, appeared on the national TV schedule 28 times. As usual, the league’s television partners are banking on Curry to deliver interest in a year in which the Warriors aren’t expected to generate as much of it on the floor.Golden State’s regular-season opener is Oct. 21 against the same team, in the same place, where Curry and Co. opened last year — against Luka Dončić and the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. This meeting will be a little different given that the Lakers no longer have LeBron James and the Warriors will open the new season without Jimmy Butler, who continues to rehab from an ACL injury. The Warriors are scheduled to see James and his new team, the Philadelphia 76ers, twice in one week later in the season: March 24 in San Francisco and March 31 in Philadelphia. The scheduling gods have to hope both future Hall of Famers stay healthy for those showcase games later in the year.LeBron headed to Philly, leaving Warriors fans disappointedNick Friedell and Lauren Morales-JonesThe Warriors make their 14th straight Christmas appearance with a home game against Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets. Their most interesting NBA Cup game is scheduled for Nov. 13 against Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs. Curry had two of his best games of last season in San Antonio, scoring a combined 95 points in back-to-back wins against the man who would lead the Spurs to the 2026 finals later in the season.This is the kind of nostalgia the Warriors are left to feature within a schedule that doesn’t have a lot of excitement behind it. At 38 years old, Curry’s magic can only stretch so far. He played just 43 games last season, and it is unclear whether the knee injury he dealt with then will linger into this year. It’s also unclear when Butler and Moses Moody (patellar tendon) will return. The lone new bright spot for the Warriors is rookie Yaxel Lendeborg, who is expected to provide a boost in short order. Lendeborg faces off against his former University of Michigan teammate Morez Johnson Jr. and the Dallas Mavericks on Nov. 18.This schedule is notably lighter at the beginning of the season than it was a year ago, when the Warriors played 12 of their first 16 games on the road, bouncing from time zone to time zone in a stretch that Warriors coach Steve Kerr and many other staffers called the toughest they’d ever seen to start a season. They have a cross-country, six-game trip at the beginning of February that starts in Los Angeles against the Clippers and ends a week and a half later against the defending NBA champion New York Knicks. They’ve also got one of the toughest back-to-backs to end the season in recent memory, with consecutive games against the Thunder in Oklahoma City at the end of the regular season in April.Overall, the schedule appears lighter from a travel standpoint than it did a year ago. There are no random two-game trips to the Midwest like there were last season for Kerr’s team. The Warriors just have to hope they can get Butler back somewhere around the start of that long trip in February, if not sooner, and that Curry can stay relatively healthy given his age and recent injury history. If those things happen, along with keeping veteran big man Kristaps Porziņģis healthy, the Warriors will give themselves the chance they were hoping to have at the end of last season. As usual, everything still revolves around Curry in the Bay, a fact that is always driven home on schedule release day.