Stuck in the doldrums for years, the Nets were essentially banished from national TV games, much less being holiday headliners.

But with Brooklyn having added Kyrie Irving, DeAndre Jordan and – eventually – Kevin Durant, at least some Nets are eyeing a Christmas Day game, the brightest limelight the league has to offer.

“When does the schedule get released? Asking for a friend,” Brooklyn point guard Spencer Dinwiddie tweeted Sunday night, followed by a mischievous-looking emoji.

Dinwiddie and Co. shouldn’t have to wait that long.

For the record, the NBA has only said it would release the dates “later in the summer.” But a quick look back at precedent shows that over the past five years, the league has unveiled the opening night schedule by the second week of August.

There has been speculation the NBA could release the national TV slate (Opening Night, Christmas Day) on Aug. 6 and the full regular-season schedule two days later.

The Nets were idle last Christmas, as usual. They haven’t had the honor of a Christmas Day tilt since 2013. They’ve only played on the holiday 10 times in their 52 seasons.

Dinwiddie is clearly itching for a Dec. 25 game, and when one follower tweeted that the Nets facing Boston on Christmas was a lock, Dinwiddie replied he would be perfectly fine visiting either the Celtics or Knicks.

“Either Garden would work for me lol,” Dinwiddie tweeted.

And either matchup would be juicy.

The Nets directly plucked Irving right off Boston’s roster, signing the free agent away from the Celtics. And they indirectly swiped him from the Knicks, with the season-long narrative having been that he was bound for Manhattan along with Durant, only to see them end up in Brooklyn while the Knicks failed to land any stars.

A Christmas Day game in Boston would be feisty, especially if it’s Irving’s first return to Beantown after last season’s collapse and ugly exit. And if the Bucks and 76ers are the perceived class of the Eastern Conference, expect the Nets and Celtics to battle tooth and nail after them for position.

And Dinwiddie’s history of tweaking the Knicks and their fans is well-documented. Earlier this month, he said, “I’m sure they wish the whole league saw them the way they saw themselves.” Knicks fans were salty at his proclamation that the Nets would be better last season, and smart money is on them being triggered at something he says before this coming season’s matchup.

If that’s a Christmas Day clash, it would just be good drama.