On August 16, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced today that the full schedule of the 2023-24 regular season will be announced at 3 a.m. Beijing time on August 18.
On August 16, Beijing time, the NBA today announced the schedule for next season's midseason tournament. The tournament will officially kick off on November 4, Beijing time, and the group stage will be played every Wednesday and Saturday from November 4 to November 29, and there will be no other matches on the day of the group stage; Each team needs to play one game against each opponent in the same group, two at home and two away.
The second phase begins on December 5, with the quarter-finals on December 5-6; Semi-finals on December 8; The final mid-season tournament winner will be determined on December 10, with the semifinals and final at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The 22 teams that did not advance to the quarterfinals will be assigned to two regular season games (one home and one away) on December 7 and December 9, Beijing time. The matchups of these 22 matches will be decided based on the group stage ranking of these teams.
Of these 22 matches, two will be played against two teams belonging to the East and West, as there will be an odd number of teams in each division who will not advance to the quarterfinals, and these two matches will be played between the teams at the bottom of the group stage. However, due to travel restrictions, no team will play more than one cross-division match. The other 20 matches will be played within the East and West, with as many teams as planned to play each other three times during the season. The teams eliminated by each league in the quarterfinals will meet on December 9 in the regular season.
In addition to the championship game, a total of 67 games in the two phases of the mid-season tournament will count towards the regular season standings. Each team will play 23 regular season games in the 82-24 season, including mid-season group stage and knockout stage matches.
The specific schedules are as follows (all times are local time):
Of those, 14 games will be broadcast live across the United States.
The full schedule for the 2023-24 regular season will be announced on August 18 at 3 a.m. Beijing time.
（NBA）