The 2022/2023 NBA season opens its doors on Tuesday, October 18 after a 4-month wait. And today, we present to you the key dates of the upcoming NBA season, with the duels not to be missed, the confrontations between the best players in the world, the play-offs as well as the NBA finals! Who will lift the Larry O’Brien Trophy and succeed the Golden State Warriors next June? We Sport offers you the dates to remember from the NBA calendar season 2022/2023.
NBA calendar season 2022/2023: October 18, opening of the season and presentation of the rings
It’s been 125 days since the Golden State Warriors won the 2022 NBA title, against the Boston Celtics after a fight in 6 games. A 4th Larry O’Brien trophy in 8 seasons for Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Steve Kerr which takes them into another dimension. And this Tuesday, October 18, the Golden State Warriors will receive their NBA champion rings from Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner. A moment always apart in a career, where emotion and communion with the fans take over the match that follows. This will also be the time to hang a new banner at the top of the Chase Center and which will join those of the 2015, 2017 and 2018 titles! After the discount, a match will still have to be played, against the Lakers of Lebron James and Anthony Davis, who will want to spoil the Warriors party!
The other match for this NBA season opener will pit the unfortunate finalists of the last play-offs, the Boston Celtics of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, against the Philadelphia 76ers of Joel Embiid and James Harden. Two big shocks to launch hostilities!
Tuesday, October 18, 2023
1:30 a.m.: Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers
4:00 a.m.: Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers
NBA 2022 calendar: Christmas Day as a Christmas present
It is a tradition that has lasted since 1949 across the Atlantic with Christmas Day. Every year at Christmas, the NBA offers us several posters between the best teams and the best players. Enough to make good audiences but also to reach the whole basketball planet with posters at the end of the afternoon and in prime time for the European continent.
On the program for this evening of December 25, 2022, Joel Embiid who will want to wish a Merry Christmas to Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden, Luka Doncic and the Mavs who will host Lebron James and the Lakers, the duel between the Celtics and the Bucks (next poster of the Eastern Conference final?), Ja Morant who will visit Stephen Curry and the reigning NBA Champions, and to conclude Christmas Day the double MVP Nikola Jokic who will welcome Phoenix and his duo Chris Paul / Devin Booker. A busy evening and night that basketball fans will have already checked off in their NBA Calendar for the 2022/2023 season.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
6:00 p.m.: Knicks vs. Sixers
8:30 p.m.: Mavs vs. Lakers
11:00 p.m.: Celtics vs. Bucks
2 a.m.: Warriors vs. Grizzlies
4:30 a.m.: Nuggets vs. Suns
NBA calendar: MLK Day, this day that goes beyond sport
MLK Day (Martin Luther Kind Day) is a public holiday in the United States which is celebrated on the third Monday of January in honor of Martin Luther King, American pastor assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Engaged in the fight against the social segregation and known for his famous “I have a dream” speech which called for equality between all races in the USA, the pastor had an impact on many African-Americans. To pay tribute to him, the NBA therefore decided in 1986 to dedicate its evening to him with almost all the teams on deck, speeches before the game, t-shirts in his name, etc. An evening apart in the NBA calendar, which records very good audiences.
And for this important evening for the NBA, the most beautiful poster will oppose Ja Morant’s Memphis Grizzlies to the Phoenix Suns. Rudy Gobert will see his former Jazz team visit him in Minnesota, while Jimmy Butler and his Heat team will travel to Georgia to challenge Trae Young and the Hawks in a remake of the first round of the last play-offs .
Monday, January 16, 2023
7:00 p.m.: Hornets vs. Celtics
8:30 p.m.: Bucks vs. Pacers
9:00 p.m.: Cavs vs. Pelicans
9 p.m.: Knicks vs. Raptors
9:00 p.m.: Wizards vs. Warriors
9:30 p.m.: Hawks vs. Heat
10 p.m.: Wolves vs. Jazz
12:00 a.m.: Grizzlies vs. Suns
4:30 a.m.: Lakers vs. Rockets
NBA Calendar: Rivals Week, the new Made in NBA
The North Basketball Association wanted to innovate this season with a new theme week in its NBA calendar, Rivals Week. Its objective, in the space of a few days (from January 24 to 28, 2023), to put in opposition the greatest rivalries of the League with confrontations which marked or mark the history of this sport. With for example the Los Angeles, Florida and New York derbies, the meetings between the Celtics and the Lakers, etc. Beautiful posters to come with new dates to check off your 2022/2023 NBA calendar.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
1:00 a.m.: Pacers vs. Bulls
1:30 a.m.: Heat vs. Celtics
4 a.m.: Lakers vs. Clippers
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
1:30 a.m.: 76ers vs. Nets
4 a.m.: Warriors vs. Grizzlies
4:30 a.m.: Lakers vs. Spurs
Thursday, January 26, 2023
1:30 a.m.: Celtics vs. Knicks
4 a.m.: Suns vs. Mavericks
Friday, January 27, 2023
2:00 a.m.: Heat vs. Magic
4 a.m.: Warriors vs. Raptors
Saturday January 28, 2023
11:30 p.m.: Nets vs. Knicks
2:30 a.m.: Celtics vs. Lakers
The All-Star Break, rest for some, stars for others
This year’s break for the All-Star Game will take place from Friday, February 17 through Thursday, February 23, 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. On the program, the Rising Star, the various competitions and the star game to conclude this weekend of festivities.
Sunday April 9, 2023, theater of the last day of the regular season
It is this Sunday, April 9, 2023 that each team will play its 82th game of the season. It is still impossible to say, but perhaps some teams will play their ticket to qualifying for the play-offs during this final evening. Others will also be looking to pick their opponent for the first round, while others will be making their final run for this season. And new to the NBA season 2022/2023 calendar, all matches will be at accessible times in France!
7:00 p.m.: Celtics vs. Hawks
7:00 p.m.: Nets vs. 76ers
7:00 p.m.: Cavaliers vs. Hornets
7:00 p.m.: Heat vs. Magic
7:00 p.m.: Knicks vs. Pacers
7:00 p.m.: Raptors vs. Bucks
7:00 p.m.: Wizardz vs. Rockets
7:00 p.m.: Bulls vs. Pistons
10:30 p.m.: Mavericks vs. Spurs
10:30 p.m.: Wolves vs. Pelicans
10:30 p.m.: Thunder vs. Grizzlies
10:30 p.m.: Nuggets vs. Kings
10:30 p.m.: Lakers vs. Jazz
10:30 p.m.: Suns vs. Clippers
10:30 p.m.: Blazers vs. Warriors
NBA playoff calendar: the play-ins to know all the posters of the NBA play-offs
The regular season will end on Sunday April 9, and 4 teams will have to compete from April 11 to snatch their place for the post-season. Then it is on Saturday April 15 that the NBA Play-offs will begin!
Tuesday April 11 and Wednesday April 12, 2023
7th vs. 8th
9th versus 10th
These meetings relate to each conference.
Thursday April 13 and Friday April 14, 2023
(Loser 7th vs. 8th) vs. (Winner 9th versus 10th)
These meetings relate to each conference.
Saturday April 15, 2023
Beginning of the NBA Play-offs season 2022/2023
NBA Finals Schedule
It’s Thursday 1er June 2023, date to check off your NBA calendar right away, when the 2023 NBA Finals will begin! The confrontation between the winner of the Eastern conference and the winner of the Western conference in the best of 7 games which will determine which team will lift the Larry O’Brien trophy!
