How many regular season games will there be in 2020-2021?

[Seventyniner]

I don't think I have seen this discussed.

The rumor I heard was that the league wants the regular season to start on Christmas Day. That's a quick turnaround of 5 weeks after the draft, but desperate times call for desperate measures (my liege, dammit I couldn't avoid saying that, I just watched Aladdin, RIP Robin Williams :cry).

Teams have normally played around 30 games by that point, so does the league just have a 52-game regular season and start the playoffs in mid-April as normal? Or try to phase back to a normal schedule over a year or two by playing into August or so next season? That would allow for more regular season games.

I know owners don't want a shorter regular season going forward because it means less ticket revenue, but at this point there's no telling when and how many fans will be allowed to attend games; will the TV contract be pro-rated for how many games are played compared to 82? Lots of moving parts here.

[lefty20]

I'm pretty sure they are planning on keeping late December/early January as the regular start of season moving forward. So yeah, it would make for a quick turn around this year but things would be back to normal next off-season.

[Rummpd]

0 NBA basketball is definitely irregular in the way played. Seriously 65 game season starts Jan.

[R. DeMurre]

I read somewhere about the Xmas start time rumor too-- can't remember where.

[Millennial_Messiah]

66 games, roughly similar to the 2012 season imo.

[Spurtacular]

NBA's problem, not mine. TBH

Hope people keep tuning out.

[phxspurfan]

I don't think I have seen this discussed.

The rumor I heard was that the league wants the regular season to start on Christmas Day. That's a quick turnaround of 5 weeks after the draft, but desperate times call for desperate measures (my liege, dammit I couldn't avoid saying that, I just watched Aladdin, RIP Robin Williams :cry).

Teams have normally played around 30 games by that point, so does the league just have a 52-game regular season and start the playoffs in mid-April as normal? Or try to phase back to a normal schedule over a year or two by playing into August or so next season? That would allow for more regular season games.

I know owners don't want a shorter regular season going forward because it means less ticket revenue, but at this point there's no telling when and how many fans will be allowed to attend games; will the TV contract be pro-rated for how many games are played compared to 82? Lots of moving parts here.

NBA will try their best to get back on the schedule for XMas to get that holiday TV / ad revenue.

[daslicer]

If they try to play 82 games I can see them doing some crazy stuff like back to back to back games.

[Dirks_Finale]

They should just sit out until their is a vaccine and herd immunity is attained.

Like that, it gives them all the time in the world to pout about how terrible it is to reside in this country as multi-millionaires. And when they return they will be eager to play and we have fans in the stands. This bubble season was well orchestrated in that in never turned into a covid toilet, but overall it's just been bizarre as hell and I hope we never see another one like it.