The Nets’ 2023-24 regular-season schedule is lastly right here.
The Nets will open their season at house towards Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at Barclays Center. They will then embark on a four-game highway journey — at Dallas, Charlotte, Miami and Chicago — earlier than returning to the borough for a hellacious, early-season three-game homestand towards the Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers.
Three bona fide championship contenders to check the Nets within the opening weeks of the season.
Of the Nets’ first 19 video games of the season, 4 can be In-Season Tournament Group Play video games that decide the seeding for the NBA’s new In-Season Tournament: Nov. 3 towards the Chicago Bulls, Nov. 10 in Boston towards the Celtics, Nov. 14 at house towards the Orlando Magic, and Nov. 28 in Brooklyn towards the Toronto Raptors.
The In-Season Tournament Knockout Rounds stretch from Dec. 4-9.
The Nets don’t play on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Day, however they’re scheduled to spend New Year’s Eve in Oklahoma City for a matchup towards Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder.
Brooklyn’s schedule options 14 units of back-to-back video games and a very taxing sequence of 4 video games in six nights in late December. The Nets have six highway journeys of at the least 4 video games, the longest a six-game highway journey in mid-March that begins in Detroit and travels by means of Charlotte, Cleveland, Orlando, Indiana and San Antonio. The Nets then solely return to Barclays Center for one recreation earlier than embarking on one other four-game highway journey: a 20-day stretch with just one recreation at house.
The Nets even have three units of back-to-back video games throughout a two-week stretch within the month of March. They play eight video games in 13 days, together with back-to-backs towards the Grizzlies and 76ers (March 4-5), on the highway towards the Hornets and Cavaliers (March 9-10) and once more on the highway towards the Pacers and Spurs (March 16-17).
The Nets finish their common season with two divisional rival matchups: at Madison Square Garden towards the Knicks earlier than the finale in Philadelphia towards Ben Simmons’ former 76ers group.
As for blasts from the previous, Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson will face off towards Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and the superteam Phoenix Suns twice this season: in Phoenix on Dec. 13, and at house on Jan. 31.
The Nets have 11 video games scheduled to be aired on nationwide tv and solely 5 set to air on a channel apart from NBA TV: in Boston on ESPN on Nov. 10 towards the Celtics; at house towards the Knicks on TNT on Jan. 23; Kevin Durant’s return to Brooklyn on ESPN on Jan. 31; Kyrie Irving’s return to Barclays Center on TNT on Feb. 6; and a March 10 matchup in Cleveland towards Spida Mitchell, former Nets massive man Jarrett Allen, and former Nets star Caris LeVert, set to be aired on ESPN.
Eight of Brooklyn’s first 10 opponents venture to be playoff contenders, with the four-game stretch towards Boston, Milwaukee, the Clippers and Celtics projecting as one of many Nets’ hardest slates of the season. They even have a five-game mid-December West Coast highway journey proper after the In-Season Tournament towards 4 championship contenders — the Kings, Suns, Nuggets and Warriors — adopted by a road-trip finale towards the Utah Jazz.
The Nets will seemingly must at the least end the common season with a .500, 41-41 report to qualify for the Play-In Tournament, and can want a stronger report to safe the Eastern Conference’s sixth seed. With the Bucks, Celtics, Heat, 76ers, Hawks and the Knicks all vying for a similar seeds, the Nets can have their work minimize out for them to complete the common season within the Top 6 of the convention.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com