Brooklyn's Ben Simmons and New Orleans' Zion Williamson also would be in line to come back Oct. 17-19: NBA All-Star 2023 (Salt Lake City, UT) April 9: Final. 20 - a "road" game against the Lakers.ĭenver's Jamal Murray, of Kitchener, Ont., would return Oct. 19: Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls to play in NBA Paris Game 2023 Feb. Kawhi Leonard and John Wall, now teammates with the Clippers, would open their season Oct. Among those who were in that group and are expected back this year, assuming they're ready to go when their teams play Game 1: Some prominent NBA names missed the entirety of last season for a variety of reasons. Detroit has a "home" game with Chicago in Paris on Jan. San Antonio has a "home" game against Miami in Mexico City on Dec. Many of those games feature at least one prominent international player, including two-time reigning MVP Nikola Jokic of Denver, two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of Milwaukee, reigning scoring champion Joel Embiid of Philadelphia and All-NBA first-teamer Luka Doncic of Dallas. The NBA has scheduled 45 games that will be shown live in prime time across Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Saturdays and Sundays. Most Improved Player: Bruce Bowen Start with the. WATCH | Hamilton Honey Badgers win 2022 CEBL championship:ĭuration 1:28 Hamilton fended off a Scarborough comeback, winning 90-88 to earn their first league championship. He has been the anchor of one of the NBA's alltime best defenses from his first game in silver and black. The big headline from their work: Teams will travel a bit less, about five per cent fewer miles in the air on average over last season. Wasch, Li and Carelli spent weeks putting a 1,230-piece jigsaw puzzle together, mindful of things like team wishes to have games on certain dates, total miles traveled, even carbon footprint.
"We have obviously a very large ecosystem of league office staff, team staff, players, arena staff that are truly driving to this process," said Evan Wasch, who, along with Gene Li and Tom Carelli, is on the NBA team of executives who build the schedule. Election Day now a newly created off day in the NBA. Outside of Toronto, there are the usual highlights - Stephen Curry and Golden State will raise another title banner on opening night, as is the NBA's customary perk for champions a five-game slate of games on Christmas yet again the traditional games in Atlanta and Memphis as part of the leaguewide commemoration of the life of Dr. LeBron James signs 2-year, $97.1M US extension with Lakers: reports.2 on the all-time list, 1,325 points behind Abdul-Jabbar. The numbers show that James could catch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the final two weeks of January - assuming James doesn't have to miss games and scores at his usual pace.