After a pandemic-interrupted 2020 and last season’s abbreviated, 72-game schedule, the NBA on Friday passed a new milestone toward normalcy by doing something once completely ordinary: issuing the league’s standard, 82-game schedule.
The 2021-22 season tips off Oct. 19 with Brooklyn at Milwaukee and Golden State at the Lakers. For the Clippers, who are coming off an appearance in the franchise’s first conference finals but remain unsure when injured star Kawhi Leonard will return from knee surgery, the season begins Oct. 21 at Golden State, on TNT.
It’s one of 27 Clippers games to be broadcast on national television and the first of their nine games on TNT, including Feb.