The National Basketball Association’s staff tasked with creating the league’s annual schedule of games always face a daunting task. In addition to giving consideration to things like venue availability, the NBA schedule-makers must also factor in the league’s honest attempt to reduce the number of games each team will play … Read more
During the summer of 2017, the National Basketball Association decided to extend the number of calendar days in the regular season in an effort to reduce the wear and tear on its athletes, and hopefully lessen the need for teams to rest its top players on game nights. This is … Read more
So exactly how does one analyze an NBA schedule? It’s not like the National Football League where you have a real “strength of schedule” based on a limited number of out-of-division opponents, because in the NBA everyone plays everyone else at least twice. But the August 14 schedule release was … Read more
