How Many Games In The Nba Season This Year?
The NBA season is 82 games long.
Each team plays 82 games.
30 teams in the NBA
82 games per team
82 x 30 = 2,460
82 Games
41 Home Games
The 82-game NBA schedule features 41 home games and 41 away games for each team. The regular season starts in October and ends in April, with each team playing 82 games. The NBA playoffs start in April and end in June, with the best teams from each conference competing for the NBA championship.
41 Away Games
In a standard 82-game NBA season, each team plays 41 home games and 41 away games. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a shortened, 72-game season for the 2020-21 campaign. As such, each team will play 36 home games and 36 away games this year.
Playoffs
16 Teams
The NBA Playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) regular season to determine the league’s champion. The playoffs were instituted in 1947, prior to which three rounds of playoffs were played. Since then, the playoffs have expanded numerous times, most recently in 2020 when the regular season was reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current playoff format since 1994 has resulted in a minimum of four teams from each conference qualifying for the tournament. Each series is played using a 2–2–1–1–1 home/away format, meaning that one team will host Games 1, 2, and 5 (if necessary), while the other plays at home for Games 3 and 4 (if necessary); it then alternates in subsequent years.
In 2020, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs: eight from each conference.
4 Rounds
The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) regular season to determine the league’s champion. The tournament was originally created in 1947, and works on a 2-2-1-1-1 format, where the two teams with the best records from each conference play each other in the first round of the playoffs.
After the first round, the winners advance to the next round and play against another team in their conference, and so on until one team from each conference reaches the NBA Finals. In 1980, when the NBA merged with its rival American Basketball Association (ABA), four ABA teams were added to the NBA playoff system; since then, 15 teams from each conference have made it to the playoffs each year.
Finals
After an NBA regular season that was unlike any other, the Finals are finally here. The Los Angeles Lakers will take on the Miami Heat in a best-of-seven series that will crown an champion. This year’s Finals are sure to be a must-see event.
Best of 7
In the NBA, the playoffs follow a best-of-7 format, meaning that the first team to win four games advances to the next round, while the losing team is eliminated. The final round of the playoffs, known as the NBA Finals, is also a best-of-7 series.
