The NBA 2K League has released the list of dates for season two, which will commence with the TIPOFF tournament on April 2.
Team will now play 16 games in the regular season, up two games from last year’s 14. Games will now take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Teams will have three bye weeks over the course of the season, in addition to one league-wide bye week from July 3-5. The NBA 2K League Finals will take place on August 3. The playoffs will begin on July 24. The league will also rebroadcast a “Game of the Day” in a time slot more amenable to European viewership.
Games will take place from 6 p.m. EST to 11 p.m. EST on Wednesdays and Fridays. Thursday games will occur in the 6-10 p.m. slot.
Here’s the full schedule for the season:
- April 2 – 6 THE TIPOFF
- April 10 – 12 Regular Season – Week 1
- April 17 – 19 Regular Season – Week 2
- April 24 – 26 Regular Season – Week 3
- May 1 – 3 Regular Season – Week 4
- May 9 – 11 THE TURN
- May 15 – 17 Regular Season – Week 5
- May 22 – 24 Regular Season – Week 6
- May 29 – 31 Regular Season – Week 7
- June 5 – 7 Regular Season – Week 8
- June 13 – 15 THE TICKET
- June 19 – 21 Regular Season – Week 9
- June 26 – 28 Regular Season – Week 10
- July 3 – 5 League-Wide Bye Week
- July 10 – 12 Regular Season – Week 11
- July 17 – 19 Regular Season – Week 12
- July 24 – 26 2019 NBA 2K League Playoffs
- August 3 2019 NBA 2K League Finals
Barclays Center will host the 2019 NBA 2K League entry draft on March 5. 74 players from a 204-person draft pool will be drafted by 21 NBA 2K League teams. Over the offseason, the league added four expansion teams: Hawks Talon GC (Atlanta Hawks), Nets Gaming Crew (Brooklyn Nets), Lakers Gaming (Los Angeles Lakers), and T-Wolves Gaming (Minnesota Timberwolves). The league held an expansion draft on September 26, where each expansion team selected two players from the pool of unprotected season-one players.
Last season, the league held its inaugural entry draft on April 4 and started the TIPOFF tournament on May 1. The added month allows the league to lessen the travel burden on its West Coast teams, who have a far longer travel period to and from the NBA 2K League Studio in Long Island City, New York.
