NBA new 2022 season begins: All you need to know about the games

The new season of the NBA will kickstart from October 19 at TD Garden.

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The Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers will inaugurate the event with the first match.

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30 teams will participate in the upcoming season of NBA, which will be divided into two Conferences - Eastern and Western.

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The long season will witness each team playing 82 games.

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Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks will be frontrunners in the Eastern Conference.

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Stephen Curry and LeBron James are the two players who will be highlighting the Western group.

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After the group stage matches, the team placed in the top 6 from each conference at the end of the season will seal their place in the Playoffs.

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8 teams will qualify for the playoffs where there will be 3 rounds - quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals.

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The top 2 teams from the NBA Conference Playoffs will clash for the Larry O’Brien trophy in NBA Finals.

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The NBA prize money for the 2021/22 season was $25 million, however for 2022-23 the prize money has not been revealed yet.

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