When Are The NBA Playoffs This Year?
The NBA playoffs are set to begin on April 15th and will end on June 17th.
Introduction
The NBA playoffs are scheduled to start on April 18 and end on June 16. The playoffs will air on ESPN, TNT, and ABC.
What Happened Last Year?
The NBA regular season is over, and the NBA playoffs are about to begin. Here’s a look at what happened last year and when are the NBA playoffs this year.
In the 2018-19 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors won their third consecutive championship. The Warriors were led by two-time MVP Stephen Curry and Finals MVP Kevin Durant.
The Toronto Raptors made their first appearance in the Finals, led by Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard. The Raptors defeated the Warriors in six games to win their first NBA title.
This year, the playoffs will begin on April 13th and will end on June 16th at the latest. The playoffs will consist of four rounds: the First Round, Conference Semifinals, Conference Finals, and the NBA Finals.
The Regular Season
The NBA regular season is 82 games long, and it starts at the end of October and runs until mid-April. The playoffs start a few weeks after the regular season ends, and they usually last until early June.
The Playoffs
The NBA Playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament held every spring in the National Basketball Association (NBA), with the winner of the series receiving the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy. The playoff mode of play was first used in 1947, though a similar tournament called the NBA Finals was used prior to that and is still used today. The competition rounds are played in a 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with home-court advantage plays at home for games 1, 2, 5, and 7), meaning that one team hosts two games in one series, while the other team hosts games 3 and 4.
In each round of playoffs, eight teams from each conference compete for a trip to the next round. The four division winners from each conference receive seeds one through four based on their regular season record (with seedings to be redetermined following any ties for divisional superiority). The two remaining teams in each conference with the next best records receives seeds five and six. These two teams start the playoffs playing two “play-in” games to determine which team will earn seed number seven. The winner of these games goes on to play the top seed in their conference in the first round of the playoffs. All subsequent rounds are played between two teams from different conferences, with seeds re-ordered so that the highest remaining seed always faces off against the lowest remaining seed (for example: if seeds five through eight win their first round series while seeds one through four lose theirs, then seeds five and six would face each other in Round 2).
Conclusion
The 2019 NBA playoffs will begin on Saturday, April 13. The playoff format has changed slightly this year, with the introduction of a play-in tournament for the seventh and eighth seeds in each conference. The playoffs will conclude with the NBA Finals, which are scheduled to begin on May 30 and end no later than June 16.
