So instead MLB decided to push up to 18 games against each rival, nine home and nine away, for the modern total of 162 games per season. If the league had nudged that number down to 16 games, the schedule would have ended up too short (144 games). (Each team would have to play nine others, and you can’t divide 154 by nine without a fraction.) Having teams play 17 games against each opponent would have yielded a 153-game season, but one that was unbalanced-meaning that teams would have unequal numbers of home and away games. The 2023 NBA All-Star Game is scheduled to be played on February 19, 2023, at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. By 1962, the leagues had expanded to 10 teams, and the 154-game schedule no longer divided evenly. The 202223 NBA season is the upcoming 77th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with the regular season beginning in October 2022 and ending in April 2023.
A full season consisted of 154 games, reflecting the fact that Major League Baseball was divided into two sets of eight teams: A club would play each of its seven rivals 22 times. The game grew over the next few decades, until it stabilized in 1920 with 16 teams averaging about 6 games per week, twice as many as are played in basketball.
In 1876, the National League of Professional Baseball debuted with eight teams playing a 70-game schedule (two or three games per week) from April through October. Baseball players, for example, were deemed capable of playing back-to-back-to-back games without fear of injury. The season lengths for other sports were determined in a similar way. As new franchises came up across the country, the number of regular season matchups grew until it reached the modern total of 82 games for the 1967-68 season. Having more games would, in the end, lead to more ticket sales and higher profits (and owners were already filling players’ off-days with exhibition games), so the season gradually lengthened. At first there were 11 teams playing 60 games each, but the nascent business had to downsize for its next season, to seven teams playing 48 games each. When the season finally did start, fans did not need much time to see that the. With the creation of the new league, players were asked to quit their day jobs and participate in a more rigorous schedule. The NBA season was shorter than usual, as the owners and players. Until the NBA was formed in 1946, professional basketball leagues played a few dozen games in each season-similar to what happens in the NCAA-and held most of these contests on weekends. It allows teams to play around three times per week for half the year. How did the league arrive at the number 82? The season usually comprises 82 games, played from October to April.
Utah Jazz (5) Dallas Mavericks win series 4-2 and advance to the second round. Denver Nuggets (6) Golden State Warriors win series 4-1 and advance to the second round.
Following a labor-dispute lockout, the 2011-12 NBA regular season tipped off on Christmas day with an abbreviated 66-game schedule. New Orleans (8) Phoenix Suns win series 4-2 and advance to the second round.