NEW YORK – The NBA NBA these days released its whole game schedule and broadcast schedules for TNT, ESPN, ABC, NBA TV and ESPN Radio for the 2022-23 everyday NBA season. The entire agenda and crew-with the aid of-group schedules are NBA to be had at NBA.com/agenda and beneath:
2022-23 NBA SCHEDULE BY DAY (PDF)
2022-23 NBA SCHEDULE BY TEAM (PDF)
The 77th NBA regular season, which contains eighty two games in step with team, will tip off on Tuesday, Oct. NBA 18, 2022, and conclude on Sunday, April 9, 2023. The 2023 NBA Play-In Tournament will take place from Tuesday, April eleven – Friday, April 14, accompanied via the start of the 2023 NBA Playoffs offered by using Google Pixel on Saturday, April 15. Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals supplied by way of YouTube TV is scheduled to be played on Thursday, June 1.
The first 4 days of the 2022-23 NBA ordinary season (Oct. 18-21) will function eight national television games as a part of Kia NBA Tip-Off 2022, with TNT and ESPN airing two NBA doubleheaders every. Those video games will exhibit 12 different groups, 3 rematches from the 2022 NBA Playoffs and rosters that currently include 15 NBA All-Star choices from closing season and seven recipients of the Kia NBA NBA Most Valuable Player Award.
The everyday season will start on Tuesday, Oct. 18 with a doubleheader on TNT, marking Turner Sports’ thirty ninth consecutive yr of NBA coverage. In the first recreation, the Philadelphia 7NBA 6ers will go to the reigning Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics (7:30 NBA NBA p.m. ET). In the second one game, the protecting NBA champion Golden State Warriors will receive their championship jewelry before website hosting the NBA Los Angeles Lakers (10 p.m. ET).
ESPN will tip off its 21st instantly 12 months of NBA insurance on Wednesday, Oct. 19 with a doubleheader, which begins with the Memphis Grizzlies website hosting the New NBA York Knicks (7:30 p.m. ET). The 2nd sport might be a rematch of a 2022 Western Conference Semifinals series, with the Dallas Mavericks journeying the Phoenix Suns (10 p.m. ET).
On Thursday, Oct. 20, TNT will present its 2d doubleheader of establishing week as the 76ers host the Milwaukee Bucks (7:30 p.m. ET) and the Lakers meet the LA Clippers (10 p.m. ET). ESPN’s doubleheader on Friday, Oct. 21 can have the Celtics journeying the Miami Heat (7:30 p.m. ET) and the Denver Nuggets going through the Warriors in San Francisco (10 p.m. ET) – rematches from the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals and 2022 Western Conference First Round, respectively.
NBA TV will tip off its live sport coverage for the 2022-23 season on Saturday, Oct. 22 with a doubleheader because the San Antonio Spurs go to the 76ers (6 p.m. ET) and the Mavericks host the Grizzlies (8:30 p.m. ET). The countrywide television time table for the primary week of the season will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 23 while the Suns go to the Clippers on NBA TV (10 p.m. ET).
Christmas Day
Five video games might be played on Christmas Day NBA (Sunday, Dec. 25) for the fifteenth yr in a row, with ESPN or ABC televising every matchup. The 75th edition of the NBA on Christmas Day will tip off on ESPN as the Knicks host the 76ers (noon ET).
The subsequent three games will air on each ESPN and ABC, with the Lakers visiting the Mavericks (2:30 p.m. ET), the Celtics web hosting the Bucks in a 2022 Eastern Conference Semifinals rematch (five p.m. ET), and the Grizzlies making their Christmas Day debut once they visit the Warriors in a 2022 Western Conference Semifinals rematch (eight p.m. ET). The Christmas Day schedule will finish with the Nuggets assembly the Suns in Denver on ESPN (10:30 p.m. ET).
NBA Martin Luther NBA King Jr. Day
TNT will gift a doubleheader as a part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 16. In the first sport, the Atlanta Hawks will host the Heat in a rematch of a 2022 Eastern Conference First Round series (3:30 p.m. ET). In the second game, the teams with the two pleasant facts inside the 2021-22 normal season will meet whilst the Suns (NBA-fine 64-18 ultimate season) visit the Grizzlies (56-26 last season) at 6 p.m. ET, marking Memphis’ twenty first annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Game.
NBA TV can even televise two games on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with the Celtics traveling the Charlotte Hornets (1 p.m. ET) and the Lakers web hosting the Houston Rockets (10:30 p.m. ET).
Election Day
As Election Day processes, the NBA and its groups will retain to inspire lovers to make a plan to vote and participate inside the civic method. New this season, all 30 teams will play on Monday, Nov. 7 on the day earlier than Election Day, whilst the NBA will help promote voter participation, proportion important resources from vote casting organizations and spotlight the civic engagement work of groups of their markets. As part of this initiative, no NBA games have been scheduled for Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. eight.
NBA Rivals Week
Classic and budding rivalries among teams and players will take center stage for NBA Rivals Week at some stage in the week of Jan. 23. A new highlight of the everyday-season time table, NBA Rivals Week will characteristic eleven nationally televised games across 4 networks over five days from Tuesday, Jan. 24 – Saturday, Jan. 28. Rivalries may be the focal NBA point of all 9 video games across TNT, ESPN and ABC that week, in addition to two games on NBA TV.
NBA Rivals Week will show off a tripleheader on ABC on Jan. 28, concluding with the Lakers touring the Celtics as the two groups that percentage the file for maximum NBA championships (17) and feature met in the NBA Finals the most times (12) renew their competition in Boston (eight:30 p.m. ET). Earlier within the day on ABC, -time reigning Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokić will lead the Nuggets towards again-to-returned MVP runner-up and 2021-22 NBA scoring chief Joel Embiid and the 76ers (3 p.m. ET), followed by way of an intracity matchup among New York and the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center (five:30 p.m. ET).
The whole recreation and broadcast schedule for NBA Rivals Week, on the way to consist of four rematches from the 2022 NBA Playoffs, is to be had right here.
NBA Global Games
The 2022-23 season will function the go back of NBA Global Games with normal-season video games out of doors the U.S. and Canada, each televised by NBA TV. The NBA Mexico City Game 2022 will see the Heat face the Spurs on Saturday, Dec. 17 on the Arena NBA CDMX in Mexico City (five p.m. ET). The NBA Paris Game 2023 will characteristic a matchup between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons on Thursday, Jan. 19 at the Accor Arena in Paris (3 p.m. ET).
2022 NBA Finals Rematches
The Warriors and Celtics will meet for the first time for the reason that 2022 NBA Finals on Saturday, Dec. 10 in San Francisco on ABC (eight:30 p.m. ET). This will mark the season most useful of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC, the primary of 7 normal-season games on Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
The second and final everyday-season matchup between the two defending conference champions will take vicinity on Thursday, Jan. 19 in Boston on TNT (7:30 p.m. ET).
Final Day of Regular Season
All 30 teams will play on the very last day of the ordinary season (Sunday, April 9). The seven games among Eastern Conference teams and the NBA only interconference recreation (Rockets at Washington Wizards) will start at 1 p.m. ET, and the seven games among Western Conference teams will begin at three:30 p.m. ET. ESPN will televise a doubleheader, with the matchups to be determined at a later date.
Travel Reduction
The anticipated average miles traveled for the 2022-23 everyday season has been decreased to forty one,000 miles per group, a document low in the technology with 30 teams and eighty two video games in keeping with team. This marks an envisioned reduction of nearly 2,000 miles consistent with group from remaining season’s previous all-time low of 43,000 miles traveled. In general, NBA teams are projected to travel more than 50,000 fewer miles than ultimate season.
The times with out a tour between games for teams on the road have increased by means of sixty six% from final season (88 from 53). The 88 no-tour instances encompass NBA 55 times of teams playing consecutive street video games towards the same opponent and 33 times of teams gambling video games in a row in Los Angeles (against the Clippers and Lakers) or New York (towards the Knicks and Nets).
Additional Schedule Highlights
All 30 groups are scheduled to make at least one appearance on TNT or ESPN within the 2022-23 normal season. The NBA on TNT, ESPN, ABC and NBA TV will gift flexible scheduling at some stage in the normal season to provide the most compelling matchups to a countrywide target audience.
TNT will air 18 Tuesday doubleheaders and 13 Thursday doubleheaders throughout the normal season, with every Thursday doubleheader taking region in January or later except for the only all through beginning week. ESPN will televise 21 Wednesday doubleheaders and 13 Friday doubleheaders. All primetime doubleheaders across TNT and ESPN will again be performed at 7:30 p.m. ET/10 p.m. ET.