The NBA schedule for the 2024-25 regular season is the 79th for the league. The schedules for all of the teams and postseason are posted as they become available from the NBA. The NBA Playoff schedule is set based on the 2024 NBA Playoffs. This will be the second consecutive season that we see the NBA Cup (new name for the in-season tournament). We’ll see the All-Star game on February 16th, 2025, at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
2024-25 NBA Regular Season
The 2024-25 NBA schedule kicks off with the first games on October 22nd, 2024. The regular season continues through April 13th, 2025. We are starting to see some of the NBA preseason schedules come out already. Once we have those all published, we’ll put them out for you as well. We’ll also get to see a few preseason and regular season games played outside of North America this year.
When is the 2024-25 NBA Schedule Release?
So, we don’t have a confirmation from the league on the 2024-25 NBA schedule release date yet. Since we came out of COVID, the schedules have been released in mid August. Last season it came out on Friday, August 18th, 2023. The year before, the NBA put the schedule out on Wednesday, August 17th, 2024.
Assuming they won’t put the schedule out on a Saturday, we can expect the NBA schedule release to probably be on Friday, August 16th. The Olympics wrap up on August 11th, so we could also see the schedules come out as early as August 14th. If doing a Wednesday, or the third option would be Monday, August 12th. We will not see any interference with the Men’s Olympic basketball schedule for the NBA like we do with the WNBA. The NBA schedules typically come out after we see the NHL schedule release too that normally happens in July.
*****Update to this. The 2024-25 NBA Schedule is now released. The NBA released the complete regular season schedule on August 15th, 2024.
Key NBA Schedule Dates
So, here are some of the key NBA schedule dates for you to track before the regular season starts as well. We start off with the 2024 NBA Draft and its TV schedule. Then, you get a mix of Team USA (all NBA players) and NBA skeds mixed in there for you too.
June 26: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (First Round – 8 ET, ABC, ESPN)
June 27: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (Second Round – 4 ET, ESPN)
July 6: Each NBA team may begin signing free agents to contracts (12:01 p.m. ET)
July 6, 7 & 9: California Classic Summer League in both Sacramento & San Francisco
July 8-10: Salt Lake City Summer League (UTA, MEM, OKC, PHI)
July 10: USA Basketball Showcase in Las Vegas: USA vs. Canada (10:30 ET, FS1)
July 12-22: NBA 2K Vegas Summer League (Las Vegas)
July 15: USA Basketball Showcase in Abu Dhabi: USA vs. Australia (Noon ET, FS1)
July 17: USA Basketball Showcase in Abu Dhabi: USA vs. Serbia (Noon ET, FS1)
July 20: USA Basketball Showcase in London: USA vs. South Sudan (3 ET, FOX)
July 22: USA Basketball Showcase in London: USA vs. Germany (3 ET, FOX)
July 26-Aug. 11: Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Oct. 4 & 6: NBA Abu Dhabi Games 2024 (Celtics vs. Nuggets)
Oct. 12-13: Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend (Springfield, MA)
2024-25 NBA Regular Season Key Dates
2024
- Oct. 22: Start of the 2024-25 NBA regular season
- Nov. 2: NBA Mexico City Game 2024 (Miami Heat vs. Washington Wizards)
- Nov. 12: Emirates NBA Cup begins
- Dec. 3: Emirates NBA Cup Group Stage concludes
- Dec. 10-11: Emirates NBA Cup Quarterfinals
- Dec. 14: Emirates NBA Cup Semifinals
- Dec. 17: Emirates NBA Cup Championship
2025
- Jan. 23 & Jan. 25, 2025: NBA Paris Games 2025 (Spurs vs. Pacers)
- Feb. 6: NBA Trade Deadline (3 p.m. ET)
- Feb 14-16: NBA All-Star 2025 (San Francisco, CA)
- April 13: NBA Regular Season ends
- April 15-18: NBA Play-In Tournament
- April 19: NBA Playoffs begin
2024 Emirates NBA Cup Schedule
The 2024 Emirates NBA Cup Schedule gets started on Tuesday, November 12th. This round of play is in the team markets. The semifinals are set for Saturday, December 14th with the Championship game on Tuesday, December 17th. The last two rounds will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2024-25 NBA Schedule
The 2024-25 NBA Schedule kicks off on October 22nd, 2024. Each team plays an 82-game regular season. The 2024-25 Regular season schedule is out. We have the complete, printable 2024-25 NBA schedule posted here for you. The schedule is by team and is in PDF. All of the team schedules are built and up in both PDF, HTML, and image formats for you to use for free.
When and Where are the 2024-25 NBA International Games?
There are two 2024-25 NBA preseason games being played in the UAE. The Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets are set to play at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on October 4th and 6th, 2024. For the regular season, we get to see games in Mexico City and Paris. At the time of this writing, we don’t have the teams slated for Mexico yet. We will see the Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs play in Paris on January 23rd and 25th, 2025. They will play in Accor Arena.
2023-24 NBA Highlights
