When Is The NBA Season Starting?

The NBA season is set to start on December 22nd, 2020.

How long is the NBA season?

The NBA regular season is 82 games long, which is played over a span of about six months. The season typically starts in the last week of October and runs through the end of April, with a brief break in between for the All-Star Game.

The playoffs start in mid-April and can last anywhere from four to seven weeks, depending on how many games are necessary to determine a winner. The NBA Finals typically start in the first week of June and conclude by the middle of the month.

What is the NBA season schedule?

The NBA regular season starts October 22 and ends April 10. Each team plays 82 games. Playoffs start April 13 and end in June.

What teams are in the NBA?

The NBA is made up of 30 teams: 29 in the U.S. and 1 in Canada. The league is divided into two conferences — the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. Each conference has three divisions, and each division has five teams. That makes a total of 15 teams in each conference.

Here are the teams in each division for the 2019-2020 NBA season:

Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division: Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors
Central Division: Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks
Southeast Division: Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards

Western Conference
Northwest Division: Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz
Pacific Division: Golden State Warriors, LA Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns Sacramento Kings Southwest Division : Dallas Mavericks , Houston Rockets , Memphis Grizzlies , New Orleans Pelicans , San Antonio Spurs

How many games are in the NBA season?

The NBA season is 82 games long. Each team plays 41 home games and 41 away games.

What is the NBA playoffs?

The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the NBA’s regular season to determine the league’s champion. The playoffs were first held in 1947, three years after the NBA was founded.

How many teams make the NBA playoffs?

The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament held after the conclusion of the regular season to determine the league’s champion. Seventeen teams from the Eastern and Western Conferences qualify for the playoffs.

The playoff field is set each year by seedings based on each team’s record. The team with the best record in each conference is seeded first, followed by the remaining teams in order of their records. For example, if two teams have identical records, the team that won head-to-head match-ups between them during the regular season is given the higher seed.

The first three rounds of the playoffs are referred to as the “First Round,” “Conference Semifinals,” and “Conference Finals.” The First Round pits seeds eight through five from each conference against each other in best-of-seven series. The higher seeded team earns home court advantage, meaning they host Games One, Two, Five, and Seven at their home arena while their opponent hosts Games Three, Four, and Six. Home court advantage in the NBA is often thought to be very important because teams generally fare better at home than they do on the road.

In addition to seeding, conferences also affect which teams end up playing each other in any given round of the playoffs. In all rounds except for the Finals, matchups are strictly determined by conference affiliation; for example, if seeds #6 and #11 advance to Round Two (the Conference Semifinals), they will necessarily play each other since they are both from either the Eastern or Western Conference. However, if both teams happen to be from different conferences (#6 from East and #11 from West), then they are reseeded so that they play a team from their own conference in Round Two (in this case, #6 would become seed #5 and play seed #4). This prevents any circumstances where two Eastern Conference or two Western Conference teams could possibly meet before playing a team from outside their own conference in later rounds of the playoffs (such as happened when Dallas and Denver advanced to Round Three (the Conference Finals) in 1988).

The NBA Finals pit seeds one through three from each conference against each other in a best-of-seven series with home court advantage going to whichever team has earned it (based on regular season record). Seed four plays seed five in a best-of-seven series with home court advantage determined by regular season record prior to advancing to play whichever team emerges victorious from Round Three (again with home court advantage determined by regular season record).

What is the NBA Finals?

The NBA Finals is the culminating championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion.

How many teams make the NBA Finals?

The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the Conclusion of the NBA regular season. NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western Conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The winners of the Finals are awarded the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, which replaced the Walter A. Brown Trophy in 1983.

When is the NBA Draft?

The NBA Draft is a two-round process through which the NBA’s 30 teams select young basketball players who have either graduated from college or are international players. The draft is held each year in June.

In recent years, the draft has been held near the end of June, but it has also been held in early July. For example, the 2019 NBA Draft was held on June 20. The 2020 NBA Draft will be held on October 16.

The earliest that the draft could be held is October 1, but it is typically not held that early because most college basketball players have not finished their seasons by that date.

When Is The NBA Season Starting?