The 2024-2025 NBA Basketball Season

[eaglesnut]

If you want balanced schedules, that's at least 58 games (with that number to jump to 62 with the inevitable 2 team expansion coming), and that's just home/away once vs everyone. Add in more games vs your conference, then more against your division and the amount you can cut dwindles.

If you want to keep the big TV contracts, you can't cut games.

So play home and away every other year against the other conference. That's not a real obstacle. They could make the schedule whatever they want.

 

[shopson67]

So play home and away every other year against the other conference. That's not a real obstacle. They could make the schedule whatever they want.

The last sentence is the real issue. Cutting games will cut the TV deal.