Over the last three seasons, teams are 0. The Pistons have the biggest differential between their number of rest-advantage games and rest-disadvantage games. The Hawks 13 vs. On the other end of the spectrum, the Spurs 9 vs. The schedule is out, and it takes full advantage of a multitude of storylines heading into the new season.
A few of those back-to-backs are two-game series, where two teams play two straight games in the same arena. Having been introduced last season to reduce travel in the condensed schedule, the two-game series are back to make the regular season a little less of a grind. This season, there will be 23 two-game series in the same arena.
Houston and Sacramento will have two two-game series against each other. The first two-game series will be in the first seven days of the season, with the Pelicans playing in Minnesota on Saturday, Oct. Twenty of the 23 two-game series have a day off in between, while only three are back-to-backs. The Nuggets and New York Knicks lead the way with three home-and-home series each, with the Knicks playing their first Oct. Fifteen of those 16 home-and-home series have a day off in between, while a Knicks home-and-home against the Philadelphia 76ers Feb.
Related to the two-game series is the reduction in one-game road trips. In the schedule, teams were set to average With the condensed schedule last season, teams averaged only 4. This season, teams have an average of 7.
That number is lower when you consider that four of those total one-game trips are the Los Angeles Lakers visiting the Clippers or the Brooklyn Nets visiting the Knicks , and several more are short trips like Golden State-Sacramento, Milwaukee-Chicago, or New York-Philadelphia.
The Hawks lead the league with 12 one-game trips on the schedule, followed by the Sixers 10 and Cleveland Cavaliers With the Grammy Awards in L. The Spurs are also one of five teams — the Nuggets , Knicks , Raptors and Miami Heat are the others — with a seven-game trip. With those two long trips, the Spurs also have two of the six homestands of seven or more games.
Their two seven-game homestands begin Jan. Their teams? Their play? Their psychology? Teams feel comfortable here. They know the quickest route to the arena; they know their pre-game routine probably won't get disrupted. They know or hope, at least die-hard opposing fans won't prank call their hotel rooms at 2am. The home fans will cheer them probably.
At least in their introduction Here begins the complications of a hectic travel schedule. He went on Jimmy Kimmel in his boxers. Perhaps the plane needs unscheduled maintenance, resulting in even more delays. Even if the first thing goes wrong—a bus arriving late—player are already planning how to sue the bus company after submitting a lackluster 4 PTS 6 TO 1 RBD performance. They always have the possibility of bonding with teammates, which of course, means those bonds can tear apart just as easily.
Now players have landed in a new city. Well, the bus meant to shuttle New York from their arena to the plane is late, meaning they take off late, meaning they arrive late. In this hypothetical case: 3 a. To the Knicks, it actually feels like 6 a. They now have to spend an hour-or-so getting to the hotel, unpacking maybe , and preparing for the game later that day.
Only then is rest an option. Considering many coaches at least like to conduct a small run-through, less-intense practice, that opportunity for more rest becomes less likely. Certain research has shown that travel has an impact on player performance. Allegedly, according to certain statistics, teams that travel from east to west win much less than teams that travel in the opposite direction.
We talked about the fact that the problem can be several time zones that teams go through until they reach a certain location to play the match. Teams can come to the matches sleepy and routinely lose the match due to the consequences of jet lag.
We have already mentioned how NBA teams travel to their games, whether they are home games or away games. Of course, away games are a much bigger problem. However, what both types of travel have in common is that you come to a certain location with style. Quite expectedly, the player will come to the match on his field in a luxury car, and the players do not lack that luxury even when traveling away.
NBA teams, as we said, travel a lot, but there are also certain facilities on these regular trips. Since people travel to the visiting fields by plane, certain norms have been established regarding those trips. Most teams travel by charter flights which involve direct flights from point A to point B.
These are not flights that involve transfers from one plane to another or long waits at airports. Simply when you have such a league in which so many people travel, charter flights must be the standard. The planes on which they travel offer all the necessary comfort for easy arrival at all locations in the USA. Some clubs, like the most trophy-winning NBA teams LA Lakers and the Boston Celtics , have their own specially designed airplanes that allow their players to come on tour with style.
There is no need to waste words on the fact that these are certainly very luxurious planes that offer players everything they need for a pleasant flight.
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