The 2023 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 19, 2023, at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City.
The 2022 NBA draft took place on June 23, 2022, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
With the previous season's NBA Finals ending in June for the first time since 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the period for free agency returned to its normal July 1 starting date, along with the July moratorium period before players could begin signing new contracts.
Notes After nearly three years without an international regular season game due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA brought back the NBA Global Games with two regular season matchups: Only the top six seeds in each conference advanced to the main rounds of the 2023 NBA playoffs, while the next four seeds participated in a Page playoff system tournament from April 11–14, 2023.
[43] Bold Game winner Italic Team with home-court advantage Bold Game winner Italic Team with home-court advantage The playoffs began on April 15, 2023.
The MVP trophy was then renamed in honor of Michael Jordan, a five-time winner and often considered the greatest player in league history.
This is the seventh year of a nine-year deal with ABC, ESPN, TNT, and NBA TV.
ABC was originally scheduled to air just a tripleheader, but it was later decided that all five Christmas games would be simulcast across both ABC and ESPN for the first time, likely in an attempt to counterprogram the NFL's scheduling of a Christmas Day tripleheader for the first time.
[112][113] On the final day of the regular season, April 9, two games with playoff implications were flexed into ESPN's afternoon doubleheader.
NBC will provide transitional corporate, technical, and distribution support up to 18 months after the sale, and Monumental plans to rebrand the network after the 2022–23 season.
[117] On February 24, 2023, the AT&T SportsNet regional sports networks sent letters to the Houston Rockets and the Utah Jazz saying they had until March 31, 2023, to reach an agreement to take their local television rights back.
The Portland Trail Blazers's deal with Root Sports Northwest is not affected because Warner Bros.