Basketball in October. Real basketball in mid-October. I’m still processing the schedule change. I’m honestly not ready.
The NBA is stretching out the 82 regular season games over two more weeks, resulting in fewer back to backs and no four games in five night stretches. Instead of one or two games in October, the Mavericks now have eight games.
Of those games, five at home with three games on the road. Along those same lines, five of the opponents are from the West with three from the East. There’s also two back to backs somehow; I thought the goal of stretching out the season was to limit these?