The entire preseason and the first two weeks of the NBA regular season are gone and counting.
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The Celtics game was canceled outright, and the NBA's regular season ended on Wednesday.
It lost four of the first five games, but the NBA season consists of a prolonged regular season spreading 82 games over many months and lengthy rounds of playoffs.
The game is the seventh NBA game to be held at The O2 and marks the third regular-season NBA game to be held in Europe.
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That was the way the quarter went for the NBA's regular-season scoring champion.
The team which ranked third in the NBA in offense during the regular season again couldn't find enough production against the league's top defense in the fourth.
An average of two million people watched regular-season NBA games last year on ESPN, while an average of 2.5 million watched such games on Turner's TNT, according to Nielsen.
The NFL playoffs and Super Bowl in particular resembled the shift that annually occurs in the NBA between (most) regular season games and playoff games (and some bigger regular season ones).
He was awarded the MVP award for both the regular season and the NBA Finals.
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Along the way, he was awarded the MVP award for the regular season and the NBA Finals.
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The three prior teams with two straight years of big improvements all declined the next year, though Miami followed up a slightly less-impressive regular season with an NBA title.
On April 15th, I wrote a Forbes SportsMoney piece about the most and least payroll-efficient NBA teams of the 2010-11 regular season.
LeBron James is in the hunt for a second straight NBA championship after leading the Miami Heat to an NBA-best 66 wins during the regular season.
In time for the NBA post season, MLB's regular season, Euro 2012 and the Tennis Grand Slams, customers who receive ESPN's linear networks as part of their Xfinity video subscription can now stream these events and associated coverage live from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU from the convenience of their iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices, as well as online.
And as if those figures aren't impressive enough, the Nets did all of that against a team that finished the regular season ranked fifth in the NBA in defensive efficiency (points allowed per 100 possessions).
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NBA. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins.
Conversely, regular season ratings are growing in the NBA based on this examination of Nielsen data by Sports Business Journal in February 2012.
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Smith averaged a career-best 18.1 points during the regular season, and his recognition as the NBA's top reserve was as much a credit to his improved maturity and decision-making as it was to his scoring streaks.
The third-seeded Nuggets were an NBA-best 38-3 at home during the regular season but needed Andre Miller's last-second shot to beat Golden State by a basket in the opener and extend their franchise-best winning streak to 24 games.
The Spurs have averaged 56 regular-season wins (second best in the NBA) and an NBA-high 10.6 playoff wins over the past five years.
Memphis led the NBA in points allowed with 89.5 per game in the regular season.
The NBA work stoppage delayed the start of the professional basketball league's regular season by about two months, cutting the combined number of preseason and regular season games to six from 40 a year earlier.
The results are surprising: any given Saturday in college football season or any Sunday during the NFL regular season is a bigger Vegas event than the World Series, the NBA Finals, or the Stanley Cup.
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Anthony's comment rang a bit ironic Wednesday, when the Knicks concluded their regular season and the 28-year-old finished the campaign as the NBA's top scorer.
Regular season attendance rose 1% this year (although empty seats continue to plague NBA owners).
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