How Many Games Does Each NBA Team Play in a Season?
Wondering how many games each NBA team plays in a season? We have the answer for you!
82 Regular Season Games
The NBA regular season is 82 games long, which is 1230 total hours of game time. Each team plays every other team in their conference four times, and each team in the other conference three times. So, a total of 2430 games are played in an NBA season.
41 Home Games
The NBA regular season is 82 games long, which each team playing 41 home games and 41 away games.
41 Away Games
The NBA season is an 82-game journey that takes place over a six-month span, with games mostly taking place on weeknights and weekends.
During the regular season, each team plays 41 away games and 41 home games. In a given year, every team plays every other team in the league twice—once at home and once on the road. That adds up to 82 total games for each team in a season.
The league schedule is released in early August, before training camp opens. The complete schedule is typically released about two weeks later.
4 Pre-Season Games
4 Pre-Season Games: all teams play 4 exhibition games prior to the start of the regular season. These games do not count towards a team’s regular season record.
0-8 Post-Season Games
The 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 winning team of the series receives the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.
Since 1947, when the NBA was established,27 different teams have won an NBA title. The Boston Celtics have won the most championships with 17 wins. The Los Angeles Lakers have won 16 championships, while the Chicago Bulls have won 6 championships.
The NBA Finals has been played annually since 1947. Prior to that, there were three years when a World Championship Series was held to determine the professional basketball champion of the world: one in 1949 and two in 1950. From 1951 to 1966, when both the NBA and Basketball Association of America (BAA) were active professional basketball leagues, a playoff system determined which teams would face each other in
the NBA Finals. From 1967 onward, when
the NBA became the only major professional American basketball league,
the playoff system has simply been used to determine which teams from each conference will face each other in
the Finals.
