NBA is one of the famous games that has been watched by fans from all over the world. This game is also one of the most-watched games, as the 2017 NBA Finals featuring the same two teams was the most-watched NBA Final series on ABC averaging an 11.3 rating / 22 share and 20.38 million viewers. According to the app called TuneIn, they have 75 million listeners in over 197 countries listen or get tuned with live NBA sports, Curated music, up to the minute news, millions of podcasts, and moreover 1.2 lakhs streaming radio stations.
Based on the NBA’s popularity everyone is eagerly waiting for 2020-21 Schedules for the coming days. But the NBA has not published its upcoming schedules yet. Following the suit with other most major sports, the Officials of NBA has done a great job of keeping the actual release date under their hoods. Therefore, without knowing the actual date, we can guess the released date based on past scheduled release dates. Now, based on previous schedules we can say that the next NBA season will start sometimes between August 12th, Monday to August 16th, Friday of 2020.
Past Year Schedules Dates
| Year | Day | Date |
| 2019-2020 | Monday | August 12 |
| 2018-2019 | Friday | August 10 |
| 2017-2018 | Monday | August 14 |
| 2016-2017 | Thursday | August 11 |
| 2015-2016 | Wednesday | August 12 |
| 2014-2015 | Wednesday | August 13 |
| 2013-2014 | Tuesday | August 6 |
| 2012-2013 | Thursday | July 26 |
| 2011-2012 | Tuesday | July 19 |
| 2010-2011 | Tuesday | August 10 |
Changes in Upcoming NBA Season 2020-21
The NBA has proposed significant rule changes for the 2021-22 season. These include reducing the regular season schedule to 78 games, adding an in-season tournament with a million-dollar prize per player to the winners, play-in tournaments for lower NBA playoffs seeds, and reseeding the final four teams in the playoffs each year based on record. Shams Charania of The Athletic released the details:
Sources: NBA has sent teams the proposal for 2021-22 season changes:
– 78-game regular season
– In-season tournament ($1M per player, $1.5M coaches pool for champion)
– Play-in tourneys for 7-8 playoff seeds
– Final 4 reseed in playoffs based on regular season records