how long is the NBA season? History of NBA
An NBA season runs more than six months of the year. It takes 82 games with each team to complete a regular NBA season. It usually starts from the last week of October and ends in late April. After the regular season, starts the playoffs which take the best of 7 game series of 4 wins until a champion comes out. The playoffs start from late April and end mid-June. An NBA season lasts 8 months and is played every night. The 2019-20 NBA season is the 74th season of NBA history which will begin the regular season on 22 October 2019 and end on 15 April 2020.
How many games in the NBA season?
From 1967 to 1968 season NBA held a big regular season of 82 games with each team for 6 months’ duration. After that, they start playoffs which takes another month until the final. And in playoffs, they play 7 games with the best teams selected and takes 4 wins and play the quarter-final and final with the teams.
The NBA season is divided into summer league, pre-season, regular season, playoffs and finally finals.
Summer league
Summer leagues are off-season NBA competition. Usually, this game is organized every year in Las Vegas. This game provides an opportunity for the young and agent-free players to prove their skills and that they are also capable of getting a chance in NBA regular season team. 83 games are played with many teams in this game. These games are played for four quarters in regulation each quarter lasts for 10 minutes and 8 minutes half time.
Pre-season
NBA pre-seasons starts with so many players in a team and cut the number of players as it continues. There is a maximum of 8 pre-season games in the NBA and throughout the season, each team needs to play at least 4 games. The NBA doesn’t count the pre-season game standings, apart from regular seasons, it is in pre-seasons you can win more games. But there so many other reasons for which this game matters.
Regular-season
Regular seasons are the main segments of the NBA season. It starts at the mid or end of October and ends in mid-April. It depends on the game. There will 82 games played by each team. 41 games will be played in their home ground, and 41 games will play in another state.
In the regular season, games will be distributed at conferences. There will be 15 teams in one conference. The opponent team will be from another conference. There will be 6 divisions in the game with five teams in each and 30 in total. Each team will play with the other opponents of the same divisions for four times. Twice in the home ground and twice in another. And each team from one conference will play with another conference twice, one in-home ground and one in another state.
Best 8 teams will be selected from 15 teams of each conference to play the playoffs and will play the 7 series of 4 wins in the NBA finals for the NBA championship.
Playoffs
The NBA Playoffs are the elimination tournament of the long NBA regular season. Best of seven teams play for the quarter-final and then final to become the NBA champion. When one team wins four-game, the series ends, and the finals start from there. Playoffs starts right after the regular season. Usually, it starts on late April and goes until late June. How much longer the playoffs will go on it depends on the competition level of the matches. The more the competitive the matches are the longer the playoff goes.
Finals
The winners from the conferences will go to the finals. All rounds of the finals are the best of seven series. These series are played in a format of 2-2-1-1-1. This means the teams with home-court will play the hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while the opponent hosts games 3, 4 and 6 with 5-7 games will be played if needed. The final starts right after the playoffs. It usually held on July and ended in a few days.
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History of NBA
NBA the national basketball association was invented in 1946. At first, it was known as the Basketball Association of America. After three years, in 1949 it changed its name to the National Basketball Association after collaborating with the NBL. It was found in New York City composed of 30 teams of professional basketball players.
In 1946 BAA started with only 11 teams but four of them were dropped before the start of the league. They played against NBL and even after the loss of four teams they played well and NBL joined the league. Even after NBLs collaborating with the league had seen so many ups and downs but now it is one of the most major sports leagues in America and No. one premier men’s professional basketball league in the whole world.
The NBA always had the best teams of professional basketball players, as people call it “teams of the era” but it didn’t form this reputation in one day. There had been a lot of losses and financial crises at the start but the league made it until now and now is one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.
The NBA is 73 years old now and has the world’s best winning professional basketball teams in its grip.
The 11 teams NBA started with are Boston Celtics, Chicago Stags, Cleveland Rebels, Detroit Falcons, New York Knickerbockers, Philadelphia Warriors, Pittsburgh Ironmen, Providence Steamrollers, St Louis Bombers, Toronto Huskies and Washington Capitals.
Final words
Every year NBA held a season of basketball games, and it lasts more than 8 months of the year. It usually starts in mid-October and ends in late July. He NBA Basketball Season has 82 games in the season and it is divided into so many parts. Basketball fans around the world wait for this time of the year to enjoy an ever longer basketball battle.
source: https://www.nba.com/
