Predicting when the NBA will release the 2024-2025 schedule

Because of the Olympics, there has been a lot of sports action to keep up with. It's awesome for fans who eat, sleep and breathe sports since the summer months are usually the most boring, and with so many events to consume, it's easy to forget that the NBA season is set to start ramping up very soon. The San Antonio Spurs haven't played basketball in over three months, so there's only a little over two months remaining before the first game of the season on October 22.

If training camps open on the same date as they did last year, we are less than two months from media days and first practices. October 3 began the festivities last season unless you played international preseason games—those teams started on September 27. With the season fast approaching, fans still don't know their team's schedule, but that should be changing soon.

The NBA should be releasing the schedule in about two weeks

Season ticket holders and single-game purchasers should get ready to start planning which games they'll attend. Looking at the past few years, the NBA has liked to release the schedule in the middle of August. It was revealed on Friday, August 18 last season, on Wednesday, August 17 the previous year and on Friday, August 20 in 2021.

The precedent suggests they'll be releasing this year's schedule either on Friday, August 16, or Wednesday, August 21. The NBA has been trying to copy the NFL's ability to make everything they do feel like an event. It's a specialty that's easier for the NFL because of the number of games. When there are only 17 games in a season, every single one feels important.

That hasn't stopped the NBA from trying to increase its hold on the market, so expect an NBA schedule release television show special to air that day, discussing the games fans will look forward to the most. You should anticipate Victor Wembanyama and the new-look Spurs to be a part of quite a few of them.