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When the 2019-20 NBA season resumes on July 31 in Orlando, each of the 22 invited teams will play eight “seed” games that will mark the conclusion of the regular season. After those eight games, seeds 1-7 in each conference will be locked in place, while seed No. 9 in each conference will have a shot at a play-in series if it is within all four seed games No. 8.
So these initial eight games will determine a lot in Orlando. No, the advantage of playing at home won’t be at stake as it normally would, but as always, first-round matches and group sides matter immensely, and in particular the race for the West’s final stand is poised for an end. photographic. . As it stands, the Grizzlies have a three-game lead in the losses column over the Pelicans, Kings, Spurs and Suns, and a four-game lead over the Blazers.
That means that each of those five teams is within the framework of four games that would allow a series of clashes against Memphis, but only one of them can get that opportunity. The Pelicans, who have the easiest remaining schedule of the 22 teams in Orlando based on the opponent’s winning percentage, could catch the Grizzlies, who have the sixth most difficult remaining schedule, before that.
With that in mind, here are the eight game closing times for each team, beginning with the Western Conference in current ranking order.
the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angles Clippers
- July 30: Lakers
- August 1: pelicans
- August 4: suns
- August 6: Mavericks
- August 8: Blazers
- August 9: networks
- August 12: nuggets
- August 14: Thunder
Denver Nuggets
- August 1: heat
- August 3: Thunder
- August 5: Spurs
- August 6: Blazers
- August 8: Jazz
- August 10: Lakers
- August 12: Clippers
- August 14: Raptors
Utah Jazz
- July 30: pelicans
- August 1: Thunder
- August 3: Lakers
- August 5: Grizzlies
- August 7: Spurs
- August 8: nuggets
- August 10: Mavericks
- August 13: spurs
Oklahoma City thunder
- August 1: Jazz
- August 3: nuggets
- August 5: Lakers
- August 7: Grizzlies
- August 9: magicians
- August 10: suns
- August 12: heat
- August 14: Clippers
Houston rockets
- July 31: Mavericks
- August 2: Bucks
- August 4: Trail Blazers
- August 6: Lakers
- August 9: Kings
- August 11: spurs
- August 12: Pacers
- August 14: 76ers
Dallas Mavericks
- July 31: rockets
- August 2: suns
- August 4: Kings
- August 6: Clippers
- August 8: dollars
- August 10: Jazz
- August 11: Blazers
- August 13: suns
Memphis Grizzlies
- July 31: Blazers
- August 2: Spurs
- August 3: pelicans
- August 5: Jazz
- August 7: Thunder
- August 9: Raptors
- August 11: Celtics
- August 13: Bucks
Portland Trail Blazers
- July 31: Grizzles
- August 2: Celtics
- August 4: rockets
- August 6: nuggets
- August 8: Clippers
- August 9: 76ers
- August 11: Mavericks
- August 13: networks
New Orleans Pelicans
- July 30: Jazz
- August 2: Clippers
- August 3: Grizzlies
- August 6: Kings
- August 7: magicians
- August 9: Spurs
- August 11: Kings
- August 13: Magic
Sacramento Kings
- July 31: Spurs
- August 2: Magic
- August 4: Mavericks
- August 6: pelicans
- August 7: networks
- August 9: rockets
- August 11: pelicans
- August 13: Lakers
Spurs of Saint Anthony
- July 31: Reyes
- August 2: Grizzlies
- August 3: Sixers
- August 5: nuggets
- August 7: Jazz
- August 9: pelicans
- August 11: rockets
- August 13: Jazz
Phoenix Suns
- July 31: magicians
- August 2: Mavericks
- August 4: Clippers
- August 6: Pacers
- August 8: heat
- August 10: Thunder
- August 11: 76ers
- August 13: Mavericks
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Milwaukee Bucks
- July 31: Celtics
- August 2: rockets
- August 4: networks
- August 6: heat
- August 8: Mavericks
- August 10: Raptors
- August 11: magicians
- August 13: Grizzlies
Toronto Raptors
- August 1: Lakers
- August 3: heat
- August 5: Magic
- August 7: Celtics
- August 9: Grizzlies
- August 10: Bucks
- August 12: 76ers
- August 14: nuggets
Boston Celts
- July 31: Bucks
- August 2: Blazers
- August 4: heat
- August 5: networks
- August 7: Raptors
- August 9: Magic
- August 11: Grizzlies
- August 13: magicians
Miami Heat
- August 1: nuggets
- August 3: Raptors
- August 4: Celtics
- August 6: Bucks
- August 8: suns
- August 10: Pacers
- August 12: Thunder
- August 14: Pacers
Indiana Pacers
- August 1: 76ers
- August 3: magicians
- August 4: Magic
- August 6: suns
- August 8: Lakers
- August 10: heat
- August 12: rockets
- August 14: heat
Philadelphia 76ers
- August 1: Pacers
- August 3: spurs
- August 5: magicians
- August 7: Magic
- August 9: Trail Blazers
- August 11: suns
- August 12: Raptors
- August 14: rockets
Brooklyn networks
- July 31: Magic
- August 2: magicians
- August 4: Bucks
- August 5: Celtics
- August 7: Kings
- August 9: Clippers
- August 11: Magic
- August 13: Trail Blazers
Orlando Magic
- July 31: networks
- August 2: Kings
- August 4: Pacers
- August 5: Raptors
- August 7: 76ers
- August 9: Celtics
- August 11: networks
- August 13: pelicans
Washington Wizards
- July 31: suns
- August 2: networks
- August 3: Pacers
- August 5: 76ers
- August 7: pelicans
- August 9: Thunder
- August 11: Bucks
- August 13: Celtics
