2023-24 NBA Schedule

The NBA and NBA betting continues to grow in worldwide popularity, and that means more options to watch its regular season and postseason product. Whether that’s local broadcasts, national broadcasts, live streaming, or applications like NBA League Pass, there are myriad options to consume and wager on games.

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NBA TV Schedule

It doesn’t matter if it is a Celtics-Nets game on a Monday night in October or a Warriors-Clippers battle on a Friday night in March, if you want to watch a game, you can.

Beginning local and moving outward, all 30 teams have local regional sports networks that air local games. The RSNs include Fox Sports, NBC Sports, AT&T SportsNet, Altitude Sports, MSG, Spectrum Sports and Sportsnet/TSN.

ESPN/ABC, TNT and NBATV are the three main networks for nationally televised games. TNT broadcasts national games every Thursday, as well as Christmas Day, Martin Luther King Day and on Tuesdays later in the regular season.

ESPN broadcasts national games every Wednesday and Friday – as well as the national holidays and Opening Week – and after the completion of the college football season adds a primetime Saturday night game to their slate and Sunday matinees following the completion of the NFL season. NBATV sprinkles their games out throughout the week, usually simulcasting a local broadcast on their channel.

The four networks split up the first two rounds of NBA playoff action. ESPN and TNT split the Conference Finals, and the NBA Finals are aired on ABC.

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Why the NBA Schedule Matters

All NBA schedules are not created equally. Unlike the NFL, where each team plays one game a week for 16 weeks with a bye week sprinkled in, or the MLB in which teams generally play similar three- and four-game sets to get to 162 games, the NBA schedule is full of intricacies that bettors must keep in mind when considering bets.

Player Rest

The first consideration is rest. Because NBA teams are playing between three and five games per week, considering how many days a team has had between games compared to their opponent always needs to be a consideration.

With many teams focusing their efforts on the postseason – more than half the league makes the postseason – rest days are becoming commonplace for stars to make sure they’re ready for the playoffs. Back-to-backs or the final games of long road trips are sometimes indicators that teams are preparing to rest some of their more important players. Always consider where a team is in their schedule before placing a bet.

Travel

Travel is the other significant factor. Each team squares off against all other 29 teams on the road over the course of a normal 82-game NBA schedule. Sometimes teams will go on extended road trips because of events taking place in their home venue – San Antonio’s annual rodeo trip, for example – and West Coast trips are commonplace for Eastern Conference teams.

Again, not every schedule is created equally. An East Coast team playing the lowly Sacramento Kings on the first game of their five-game West Coast road trip is much different than playing in Sacramento to end that 10-day trip.

How the NBA Creates its Schedule

The creation of the NBA schedule is rather straightforward. For an 82-game season, the breakdown is as follows:

Each team plays four games against the other four division opponents, totaling 16 games.

Of the remaining 10 teams in the conference, each team will play four games against six of them and three games against the other four, totaling 36 games. There is a five-year rotation that determines which non-division teams are played just three times.

To finish off the schedule, each team plays two games (one home, one away) against each of the 15 teams in the opposing conference, totaling 30 games.

Exceptions are made due to extraordinary circumstances, such as the COVID pandemic. For that reason, the NBA schedule build is different in 2021, as the shortened league calendar means each team will only play 72 regular season games. That means each team will play three games against the other 14 teams in its conference, totaling 42 games. Each team will also play the standard two games (one home, one road) against the 15 opponents in the opposite conference, totaling 30 games.

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