{"id":58300,"date":"2025-08-04T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:46:10","slug":"2025-26-nba-schedule-release-date-when-does-the-season-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58300\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 NBA Schedule Release: Date, When Does the Season Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">With the 2024-25 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240813073523mp_\/https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBA<\/a> season and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/nba-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 NBA Draft<\/a> behind us, it&#8217;s time to start thinking about the upcoming NBA season. Stay up to date with everything you need to know about the 2025-26 NBA Schedule release below:<\/p>\n<p>When is the 2025-26 NBA Schedule Release?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">We don&#8217;t know exactly when the NBA will announce the 2025-26 regular season schedule yet, but we can make some educated guesses based on past releases. Based on past release dates, NBA fans can expect to see 2025-26 NBA season matchups in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers are a &#8216;real threat&#8217; if Luka Doncic returns in Men&#8217;s Health cover form | First Things First  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/watch\/fmc-wv40tmr7ez0sig4k\" class=\"pointer video\" data-v-63c9d14b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/t7ila8gx47q4c93d.jpg\" alt=\"Lakers are a 'real threat' if Luka Doncic returns in Men's Health cover form | First Things First\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" class=\"thumbnail\" data-v-63c9d14b=\"\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Nick Wright shares his biggest takeaways from Luka Doncic&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Health article that discusses his offseason training, diet and body transformation. <\/p>\n<p>When does the 2025-26 NBA Season start?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">While we don&#8217;t know everything about the 2025-26 NBA season yet, we do know that NBA Opening Night will be October 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Past NBA Schedule Release Dates2024-25: Aug. 15, 20242023-24: Aug. 17, 20232022-23: Aug. 17, 20222021-22: Aug. 20, 20212020-21: Dec. 4, 20202019-20: Aug. 13, 20192018-19: Aug. 10, 20182017-18: Aug. 14, 20172016-17: Aug, 11, 20162015-16: Aug. 12, 20152014-15: Aug, 13, 20142013-14: Aug. 6, 20132012-13: July 26, 20122011-12: July 19, 20112010-11: Aug. 10, 20102009-10: Aug. 4, 20092008-09: Aug. 6, 20082025-26 Regular Season Games Already Announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">We do know the dates of three international games for the upcoming NBA season:<\/p>\n<p>November 1, 2025: Pistons vs. Mavs in Mexico City, MexicoJanuary 15, 2026: Grizzlies vs. Magic in Berlin, GermanyJanuary 18: 2026: Magic vs. Grizzlies in London, UK2025-26 NBA Schedule and Key DatesOct. 2, 2025: NBA Preseason begins with NBA Abu Dhabi GamesOct. 21, 2025: Regular Season startsOct. 31, 2025:\u00a0Emirates NBA Cup startsDec. 16, 2025: Emirates NBA Cup ChampionshipFeb. 13-15, 2026: NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, CA     <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NBA.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"National Basketball Association\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the National Basketball Association Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2024-25 NBA season and 2025 NBA Draft behind us, it&#8217;s time to start thinking about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-58300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}