Get your calendars ready: The NBA schedule for the 2015-16 season will be unveiled Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. ET.
During an hourlong special on NBA TV, hosted by Rachel Nichols and Dennis Scott, key dates will be highlighted including opening week, Christmas Day games and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day specials.
A draft of the schedule has been in the hands of teams for more than a week now as they had to sign off in regards to building availability, etc.
One key thing to watch league wide: Number of back-to-back games and four in five nights. Those are two areas where NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has stressed publicly that he wants to limit as much as possible.
What are teams looking at, in addition to the two items above: Holiday games, road trips, long home stands, where they begin and end the season, who in the conference they face just three times, and how many games are nationally televised.
As for the preseason schedule, which the Pacers revealed more than a week before the regular-season schedule was published last season … don’t expect it before Wednesday. While other teams have announced their preseason dates, the Pacers’ is still being finalized and will be released at a later date.