Credit: USA Today Sports – Scanpix
Credit USA Today Sports – Scanpix

The NBA released its complete game schedule for the 2022-23 regular season.

The 77th NBA regular season, which comprises 82 games per team, will tip off on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, and conclude on Sunday, April 9, 2023. In the first game, the Philadelphia 76ers will visit the reigning Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics.

The 2023 NBA Play-In Tournament will take place from Tuesday, April 11 – Friday, April 14, followed by the start of the 2023 NBA Playoffs on Saturday, April 15.

Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals presented is scheduled to be played on Thursday, June 1.

Christmas Day

Five games will be played on Christmas Day (Sunday, Dec. 25) for the 15th year in a row.  The 75th edition of the NBA on Christmas Day will tip off on ESPN as the Knicks host the 76ers.

The next three games will air with the Lakers visiting the Mavericks, the Celtics hosting the Bucks in a 2022 Eastern Conference Semifinals rematch, and the Grizzlies making their Christmas Day debut when they visit the Warriors in a 2022 Western Conference Semifinals rematch.

The Christmas Day schedule will conclude with the Nuggets meeting the Suns in Denver.

Election Day

As Election Day approaches, the NBA and its teams will continue to encourage fans to make a plan to vote and participate in the civic process.

New this season, all 30 teams will play on Monday, Nov. 7, on the day before Election Day, when the NBA will help promote voter participation, share important resources from voting organizations and highlight the civic engagement work of teams in their markets. 

As part of this initiative, no NBA games have been scheduled for Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

NBA Global Games

The 2022-23 season will feature the return of NBA Global Games with two regular-season games outside the U.S. and Canada.

The NBA Mexico City Game 2022 will see the Heat face the Spurs on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City.

The NBA Paris Game 2023 will feature a matchup between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons on Thursday, Jan. 19 at the Accor Arena in Paris.

Travel Reduction

The estimated average miles traveled for the 2022-23 regular season has been reduced to 41,000 miles per team, a record low in the era with 30 teams and 82 games per team.

This marks an estimated reduction of nearly 2,000 miles per team from last season's previous all-time low of 43,000 miles traveled. In total, NBA teams are projected to travel more than 50,000 fewer miles than last season.

The instances with no travel between games for teams on the road have increased by 66% from last season (88 from 53).

The 88 no-travel instances include 55 instances of teams playing consecutive road games against the same opponent and 33 instances of teams playing two games in a row in Los Angeles (against the Clippers and Lakers) or New York (against the Knicks and Nets).

Full schedule can be found here.

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