The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets Set to Face Off in Opening Game of the 2023/2024 NBA Season

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets will begin the 2023/2024 NBA season, in a reissue of the Western Conference Final from the previous year.

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is considered the most prestigious orange ball league in the world. 30 franchises compete in two eastern and western conferences and those that finish the 82 games of the regular season in the first six places will play in the NBA play-offs.

Since the 2019/2020 season, the so-called play-in round was implemented, which consists of pitting the seventh place against the eighth and the ninth against the tenth of each conference in a single game, and thus define the 16 teams that will be part of the play-offs.

The play-offs pit franchises from the same conference against the first team to win four games. This is how they are eliminated until they reach the NBA finals that define the champion and winner of the ring. However, for this 2023/2024 season a new tournament will be played that will run from November to December 2023.

In-Season Tournament, the new NBA tournament

The same 30 franchises from the regular season will be divided into six groups of five teams each. It will only be one game against each team, two at home and two as a visitor.

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Only the first in each group will advance to the round, and to complete a table of eight teams, the first, at that time, in each conference will be added. This will create four direct elimination brackets in a single game.

The semifinals and final will be played in Final Four format in Las Vegas. In order to define the champion of the first NBA Cup.

The favorite teams for the NBA ring

The Denver Nuggets are the current league champions after playing in the first NBA finals in their history and getting their first ring. That makes them the first candidate to revalidate the title they obtained from the Serbian basketball player Nikola Jokić.

The Miami Heat had a dream season the previous year, reaching the NBA finals, but they fell by the wayside. However, his figure Jimmy Butler hopes to repeat his high level in the play-offs of the 2022/2023 season and dream again of being close to a ring.

The Milwaukee Bucks were league champions two years ago and are excited to return to the top of the best basketball in the world. The Greek, Giannis Antetokounmpo, once again emerges as the great figure who increases the hopes of lifting the NBA trophy again. The previous season they were first in their conference, but were eliminated in the first round of the play-offs.

The Phoenix Suns were a semifinalist in the Western Conference and their star player, Devin Booker, wants to take the franchise to the NBA finals again. For the businessmen behind the team, the championship became an obsession.

The Boston Celtics are one of the winningest franchises in NBA history. They have a long and successful tradition in the League that makes them favorites every year. Jayson Tatum pushed himself to the limit, but his limit last season was the Eastern Conference finals.

The Los Angeles Lakers did not have the best start to the season last year, but as the months went by they strengthened and reached the conference finals. It may be the last season for LeBron James who surely does not want to retire from professionalism without one more ring with the Lakers.

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The 2023/2024 NBA season will begin on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 with two opening games. In the first round, the Lakers and Nuggets will reissue the Western Conference finals from the previous year. Finally, in the second hour Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns will measure forces in the second game of day one.

The traditional All-Star game, which brings together the best players in the League, will be played on February 18, 2024 and it is expected that the play-offs will begin on June 6 of the same year. the NBA.

Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers

Time: 6:30 p.m. m

Canal: Star+

Golden State Warriors vs. Phoenix Suns

Time: 9:00 p.m. m

Canal: Star+

2023-10-24 00:17:00
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