With fans excited that the lockout has finally come to an end. The tentative timeline have come out of how the league schedule will go this season. Teams will only play 66 regular season games, 48 being in their respective conferences and 18 non-conference games. Below is the respective schedule for this season:
Today 11/30/11: Teams were able to begin talking to restricted and unrestricted free agents.
Thursday 12/1/11: Teams may begin to open arenas to players to begin coming in for individual workouts
Friday 12/9/11: Training Camps as well as free agency (official day to begin offering deals for free agents) will begin
Sunday 12/25/11: The season will tip off with some key match-ups including Lakers/Bulls, Celtics/Knicks, and a Finals rematch between the Heat and Mavericks.
12/25/11-4/26/12: The regular season will run a few weeks longer than usual due to the delay in start of the season and the last regular season game is expected to be played April 26, 2012. Throughout the season each team is expected to play at least one, but no more than three, back-to-back-to-back games in order to squeeze the 66 regular season games in the short time frame.
With the regular season ending a couple of weeks later than usual the playoffs are scheduled to end no later than June 26, 2012 which also a couple of weeks later than usual. During the 2nd round of the playoffs teams may have to also play in the back-to-back format due to the crunch on time.
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