The NBA has released its game schedule and broadcast schedules for TNT, ESPN, ABC, NBA TV and ESPN Radio for the second half of the 2020-21 regular season.

The second half of the season will begin Wednesday, March 10 and conclude Sunday, May 16.

Following the regular season, the 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament (May 18-21) will be played and the 2021 NBA Playoffs, which will tip off Saturday, May 22.

According to the league, the Play-In Tournament will determine the teams that will fill the seventh and eighth playoff seeds in each conference. The teams with the seventh-highest through the tenth-highest winning percentages in each conference will qualify for the Play-In Tournament.

The team with the ninth-highest winning percentage in each conference will host the team with the tenth-highest winning percentage in its conference in a Play-In Game (the “Nine-Ten Game”).  The loser of the Seven-Eight Game will host the winner of the Nine-Ten Game in a Play-In Game, and the winner of that game will be the eighth seed in the playoffs for its conference.

 

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