NBA · COMPETITION OVERVIEW
NBA regular
season
Understand regular-season records, qualification and the championship path.
Games and series.
A standard regular season has 82 games per team. Playoff series are best-of-seven: the first team to four wins advances.
Start with the regular-season record.
A standings table organises results within a season. Wins, losses and conference placement help explain the path into the postseason. Before comparing records, check that the tables use the same season and stage.
From standings to the bracket.
The Play-In resolves the seventh and eighth playoff seeds in each conference. Follow the bracket guide to see why finishing seventh and finishing tenth create different routes.
A league title is a postseason result.
The championship archive records the Finals winner. It is not a list of the best regular-season records. That distinction is why a season recap needs both the standings context and the eventual championship result.
For Philippine viewers.
When reading a schedule, check whether the date and time are already shown in Philippine time. A game listed on an American evening can fall on the following calendar day in Manila. Keep the source timezone with any time you share. This evergreen guide contains no countdowns or predicted game times.
UPCOMING GAMES
Upcoming NBA games.
Times shown in Philippine Time (PHT, UTC+8).