The 2025–26 NBA season is the upcoming 80th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season is scheduled to begin on October 21, 2025, and end in April 2026. The third edition of the in-season NBA Cup tournament is planned to be held in November and December 2025. The 2026 NBA All-Star Game is scheduled for February 15, 2026, at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. The play-in tournament is then scheduled to be played in April 2026 followed by the playoffs the next day, and conclude with the NBA Finals in June.
Transactions.
Draft.
The 2025 NBA draft has taken place on June 25–26 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Free agency.
Free agency negotiations began on June 30, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. ET. Players may be signed after the July moratorium on July 6 at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Preseason.
In addition to regular preseason games hosted at NBA teams' own arenas, the NBA often hosts neutral site preseason games (either in domestic non-NBA markets or foreign markets) or against non-NBA teams. Listed below are only those neutral site or preseason games.
Media.
National.
This will be the first year of new 11-year deals with the ESPN family of networks, NBC Sports, and Amazon Prime Video. The ESPN networks renewed their contract with a modified schedule. NBC and Prime Video both replace TNT, with NBC returning to televising the NBA for the first time since , and Prime Video signing its first U.S. national contract with the league.
Local.
Prior to the season, the Hawks, Cavaliers, Heat, Timberwolves and Bucks reached an extension with FanDuel Sports Network to keep their local games on the network until at-least the 2026–27 season.