Nba Opening Week Schedule
Game between the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs played on Thu January 14th 2021. The Rockets beat the Spurs 109 to 105. Christian Wood led the scoring with 27 points, Jae'Sean Tate led. Details have emerged about the 2019-20 NBA schedule, including opening day. The release date for the schedule typically comes in mid-August.
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Training camp starts this week and with the regular season less than three weeks away, the talk has moved from free agency movements to the season schedule.
So far, the NBA has released the preseason schedule and the Christmas day schedule. The first part of the NBA’s 2020-21 regular season will be announced on Friday, according to the NBA. But that doesn’t mean we don’t know anything about the regular season yet.
A Tale of Two Halves
As per the league’s announcement last month, the regular-season schedule for the 2020-21 NBA season will be released in two halves. Of course, the league coined them as the First Half and Second Half with an All-Star break in between and a play-in tournament after.
The NBA announced the structure of the 2020-21 schedule. It will be released in two halves, with the first half being released around the start of training camp.
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— Cayleigh Griffin (@cayleighgriffin) November 18, 2020
The First Half will run from December 22 to March 4th, and that schedule will be the one released on Friday. The Second Half is slated to take place from March 11 to May 16. The Second Half schedule will not be released until later in the First Half. This will include the rest of each team’s 72-game regular-season schedule which wasn’t include in the First Half, as well as games in the First Half that were postponed and that can be “reasonably added’ to the Second Half.
Each team will play teams from its conference three times or a total of 42 games while they will play the teams from the opposing conference twice or 30 games for a total of 72 regular-season games.
Within each division, the NBA has assigned which teams will be played twice at home and twice on the road. Each division within a conference will play all five teams from another division at home, and five teams from the remaining division on the road twice.
Opener Has Plenty of Fireworks
On Tuesday, the NBA confirmed its national TV schedule for the first three-game days of the 2020-21 season. According to the league, the December 22 opening night will be a double-header on TNT. There will be one game on TNT and the other one on ESPN on the 23rd while there will be five Christmas Day games across ESPN and ABC on December 25th.
The 2020-21 NBA season tips off Christmas Week with games beginning Tuesday, December 22 on TNT!
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— NBA (@NBA) December 2, 2020
The December 22 opener has plenty of fireworks with the Golden State Warriors visiting the Brooklyn Nets in what will be Kevin Durant’s first game against the Warriors since leaving for Brooklyn two seasons ago. That game will be followed by the Battle of Los Angeles at Staples Center. The game will mark the first game of Montrezl Harrell since transferring from the Clippers to the Lakers.
The four teams on opening night will be in action as well on Christmas Day as Golden State will visit two-time MVP Giannis Antetookonmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks while LBJ and the Lakers host MVP betting favorite Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in Tinseltown. The other three Christmas Day games feature the Nets playing in Boston, the Clippers playing in Denver, and the Eastern Conference champions Miami Heat playing hosts to Zion Williamson and the Pelicans.
Lakers vs Clippers Rivalry
It looks like the league is high on the Los Angeles rivalry this season with the Lakers vs Clippers highlighting the 2020-21 schedule. The two Los Angeles teams are slated to face each other twice during the preseason. The Staples Center rivals will headline December 11th’s first preseason playdate. They are also booked to meet a second time on December 13th. And then, of course, the Lakers and Clippers will meet again on opening night.
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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 28, 2020
Much has been talked about this rivalry ever since the Clippers rose from being the doormat of the league to one of the top teams in the NBA. The Clippers were the preseason favorites to win the 2020 NBA title but it was their rivals who were crowned as NBA champions after the bubble tournament.
The Lakers are the current +275 preseason betting favorites to repeat as NBA champions while the Clippers are second in the latest SportsBetting.ag odds board to win the Western Conference at +325.
Sportsbooks are also predicting a Lakers vs Bucks matchup in the 2021 NBA Finals. That pairing is currently listed at +900 with a Lakers vs Nets showdown in the championship round pegged second at +1200.
Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.© Ross D. Franklin/AP The long-awaited returns of Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant will feature prominently in the opening week of the NBA's 2020-21 schedule. (Ross D. Franklin/AP)
After racing through its draft and an abbreviated free agency period in November, the NBA released its schedule Wednesday for the opening week of the upcoming 2020-21 season, including the traditional five-game slate on Christmas Day.
Because it seeks to host games in home markets during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the NBA opted to release its 72-game schedule, which is shortened from the traditional 82 games, in two parts to account for the possibility of positive tests requiring that games be delayed. The first half of the schedule will be released in full Friday, covering games from Dec. 22 to March 4.
The second half of the schedule — which covers March 11 to May 16 — will be released once the NBA gets closer to its all-star break, which will run from March 5 to 10. The 2021 All-Star Weekend, which was set for Indianapolis, was postponed to 2024.
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Opening night will highlight the Los Angeles Lakers, who claimed the 2020 championship inside the Disney World bubble in October, as well as the returns of Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant and Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry. LeBron James and the Lakers will play host to Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center, rekindling a crosstown rivalry between two of the Western Conference’s top contenders.
The Dec. 22 doubleheader also will feature Durant and Curry, who won titles with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018, facing off at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. While Curry played just five games last season because of a broken hand, Durant missed the entire season while recovering from an Achilles’ tear suffered during the 2019 Finals. Opening night will mark Durant’s first game with new sidekick Kyrie Irving and the coaching debut of Steve Nash, the two-time MVP point guard who was hired as Brooklyn’s coach in September. The Warriors and Nets are both hoping to emerge as contenders this season, although Golden State’s hopes took a big hit when Klay Thompson suffered a torn Achilles’ tendon last month. Both games will be on TNT.
© Mark J. Terrill/AP Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out six assists in a Game 5 win over the Miami Heat. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)The second night of the season, Dec. 23, will see back-to-back MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks visiting Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics in a battle between Eastern Conference powers on TNT. Later that night, the Phoenix Suns, led by new point guard Chris Paul, will host Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks on ESPN.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association agreed last month to condense the offseason and accelerate the start of the season to get the league’s calendar back on track and to maximize television revenue given that fans are unlikely to return to arenas in high volumes this season. Teams began individual workouts Tuesday and are holding media day interviews virtually with players this week.
After finishing its 2019-20 regular season and hosting the 2020 playoffs on a restricted campus at Disney World over the summer and fall, the NBA will use its home markets for the upcoming season. Because of the difficulty of international travel, however, the Toronto Raptors will relocate to Tampa. While teams will travel from market to market throughout the season, the NBA’s schedule-makers worked to reduce the number of miles each team flies by hosting multigame series within a given market. When a Western Conference team goes to Los Angeles, for example, it will play all its games against the Lakers and the Clippers during a single trip.
Each team’s 72 games will include 42 against teams in its conference and 30 against the opposing conference. In a typical season, teams play 52 games within their conference. The Washington Wizards, for example, will play each Eastern Conference team three times and each Western Conference team twice.
Christmas schedule
The NBA built its Christmas Day slate around James, Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo. The bubble’s four conference finalists were all included, as were the league’s two highest-profile rising stars: Doncic and Zion Williamson. James Harden’s Houston Rockets, Joel Embiid’s Philadelphia 76ers and Damian Lillard’s Portland Trail Blazers were among the notable omissions. The New York Knicks, long a holiday mainstay, were left off for the second straight Christmas in anticipation of another rebuilding season.
New Orleans Pelicans at Miami Heat, noon Eastern time on ESPN: Williamson, the 2019 top overall pick and one of basketball’s biggest television draws, will lead a new-look Pelicans roster against Jimmy Butler and the defending Eastern Conference champs.
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Golden State Warriors at Milwaukee Bucks, 2:30 p.m. on ABC: Curry and Antetokounmpo have played for only one franchise each during their respective careers, making this a battle between homegrown MVPs.
Brooklyn Nets at Boston Celtics, 5 p.m. on ABC: After a 17-month absence, Durant will go head-to-head with Tatum in an Atlantic Division clash.
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Dallas Mavericks at Los Angeles Lakers, 8 p.m. on ABC: James narrowly beat out Doncic to lead the West in all-star votes last year, and the two sensational playmakers should serve as ideal holiday headliners.
Los Angeles Clippers at Denver Nuggets, 10:30 p.m. on ESPN: Rather than another showcase matchup against James’s Lakers, Leonard’s Clippers will get a rematch of a thrilling second-round playoff series that the Nuggets won in seven games.