NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
ESPN’s Game Coverage Restarts on July 31 with Celtics vs. Bucks and Rockets vs. Mavericks
NEW YORK, United States of America, June 27, 2020/ -- Season Resumes on July 30 with Jazz vs. Pelicans and Clippers vs. Lakers in
TNT Doubleheader; ESPN’s Game Coverage Restarts on July 31 with Celtics
vs. Bucks and Rockets vs. Mavericks
The NBA (www.NBA.com) today released its complete game schedule (https://on.nba.com/2YEwJ3i) and national television schedules for TNT (https://on.nba.com/3dFo9pg), ESPN (https://on.nba.com/2Vl0KTJ), ABC (https://on.nba.com/2BO68ry) and NBA TV (https://on.nba.com/2BiRdps) for the “seeding games,” which will be played July 30 – Aug. 14 to tip off the resumption of the 2019-20 season.
The 22 teams participating in the season restart will play eight seeding games each at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World
Resort in Florida. The team-by-team schedules for the seeding games are available here (https://on.nba.com/2Vo8swK).
On Thursday, July 30, the season will resume with a TNT doubleheader as
the Utah Jazz faces the New Orleans Pelicans and the LA Clippers meet
the Los Angeles Lakers.
ESPN will tip off its restart game telecasts with a doubleheader on
Friday, July 31 and four games on Saturday, Aug. 1. Friday’s
doubleheader will feature the Boston Celtics vs. the Milwaukee Bucks and the Houston Rockets vs. the Dallas Mavericks. Saturday’s schedule on
ESPN will begin with a matchup between the Miami Heat and the Denver
Nuggets.
ABC will present two games on Sunday, Aug. 2, with the Portland Trail
Blazers taking on the Celtics and the Bucks meeting the Rockets.
NBA TV will televise seven games during the first week of the season
restart, beginning with a matchup between the Memphis Grizzlies and
Portland Trail Blazers on July 31.
During the season restart, there will be a maximum of seven seeding
games per day across three venues at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Each team will be designated as the home team in four seeding games and the visiting team in four seeding games. The tip-off time for each
team’s last seeding game, scheduled to be played on Aug. 13 or 14, will
be determined at a later date in order to provide the most compelling
matchups to a national audience. As part of the restart, the NBA and
its broadcast and technology partners are collaborating to enhance game
telecasts and bring fans an immersive, interactive viewing experience.
The 88 seeding games, which were selected from the remaining 259
regular-season matchups, will count toward the final 2019-20
regular-season standings and regular-season statistics. In the first
step of the selection process for the seeding games, the matchups were
chosen chronologically, starting from March 11, except in these
instances:
A matchup featured a non-participating teamA matchup resulted in either team in the matchup exceeding eight total gamesA matchup prevented any participating team from having eight feasible matchups
The second step in the selection process was matchup balancing. There
were eight instances in which selecting matchups chronologically
prevented a matchup that was scheduled to be played two more times in
the remainder of the regular season from being included among the
seeding games. In those cases, one instance of that matchup was added
as a seeding game, and instances of repeat matchups as seeding games
were removed where possible.
For example: Milwaukee’s two remaining regular-season matchups against
the Washington Wizards were scheduled to be played on March 21 and 27
and their two remaining regular-season matchups against the Brooklyn
Nets were scheduled to be played on April 9 and 15. If matchups for
seeding games were selected in chronological order only, then the Bucks
would have been scheduled to play the Wizards twice and the Nets zero
times. To balance the matchups, one instance of a Bucks-Nets matchup
was added as a seeding game and one instance of a Bucks-Wizards matchup
was removed as a seeding game.
The seeding games will conclude on Aug. 14. If a play-in is required to determine the eighth playoff seed in either conference, it will take
place on Aug. 15-16. The first round of the 2020 NBA Playoffs will
begin on Aug. 17.
NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
NBA announces Game and National Television Schedules for ‘Seeding Games’ to Restart 2019-20 Season
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