The N.B.A. released its 2015-16 schedule on Wednesday, trumpeting an effort to make the season more physically forgiving for players by building in more days off between games.
As the number of injuries to star players has increased in recent years, games on back-to-back days have become a hot-button issue, with some players and officials suggesting the total number of games, 82, could be reduced. That seems unlikely.
But the league noted in its news release Wednesday that the new schedule would have only 27 instances in which any team would play four games in five nights, down from 70 last season.