When Does the 2021 NBA Season Start?
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The 2021 NBA season is set to tip off on December 22nd. Find out what this means for the league and its players.
The NBA Draft will be held on November 18th, 2020.
The 2021 NBA Draft will be held on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The draft will consist of two rounds and 60 total selections.
The 2020 NBA Draft was originally scheduled to be held on Thursday, June 25th, 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Training camp will start on December 1st, 2020.
The NBA Board of Governors approved the start date for the 2020-21 season on Thursday, setting Dec. 1 as the day when training camps can open around the league.
The league had been targeting a December start date for several weeks, after declaring that it wanted to wait until health and safety conditions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic improved. When the NBA suspended its season on March 11, it became clear that a December start was the most likely scenario for the 2020-21 campaign.
The 2020-21 season will mark the first time in league history that teams will play an 82-game schedule in a 72-day span. The NBA is hoping to avoid a repeat of last season, when it was forced to cram 66 games into 119 days.
The regular season will start on December 22nd, 2020.
The regular season will start on December 22nd, 2020 and each team will play 72 games. The playoffs will start on May 22nd, 2021 and the NBA Finals will conclude no later than July 22nd, 2021.
