The NBA regular season will begin Dec. 22, and the schedule will be 72 games.
Also, The NBA Free agency will begin Friday, Nov. 20, two days after next week’s NBA draft.
The salary cap is going to be set at $109.1 million, and the luxury tax will be $132.6 million — the same numbers they were during the 2019-20 season, before the league’s finances took a drastic hit as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Teams had been expecting both numbers to remain the same next season for some time now, as it was better for both the teams and the players to avoid a massive drop in the salary cap for next season because of the unplanned drop in revenue.