Bucks Gaming: Inaugural team takes shape after NBA 2K League draft
By Adam McGee
Schedule
While the first taste of the league was provided on Friday in the NBA 2K League Draft Clash, essentially an exhibition event, teams will get down to business for real starting on May 1.
The NBA 2K League season will be made up of a regular season and playoffs, as well as three in-season tournaments.
Tournaments will contain groups and be seeded as the year goes on, and will boast a prize pool in the $100,000 to $150,000 range.
Each team will play a minimum of 19 games, which will include 14 regular season contests. At the end of the regular season, eight teams will advance to the playoffs. These will comprise of the winner of the final tournament and the seven best regular season teams.
The playoffs will have a prize pool of $600,000, with $300,00 going to the winning team. The first round will be single elimination with the semi-finals and final played out as a best of three series.
Games will be played on Friday and Saturday throughout the season, with start times staggered to cater for domestic and international audiences.
The full schedule, as announced by the league, can be seen below:
2018 NBA 2K League Schedule
- May 1-5 Tip-off tournament
- May 11-12 Weekly matchup
- May 18-19 Weekly matchup
- May 25-26 Weekly matchup
- June 1-2 Weekly matchup
- June 8-9 Tournament
- June 15-16 Weekly matchup
- June 22-23 Weekly matchup
- June 29-20 Weekly matchup
- July 6-7 Weekly matchup
- July 13-14 Tournament
- July 20-21 Weekly matchup
- July 27-28 Weekly matchup
- August 3-4 Weekly matchup
- August 10-11 Weekly matchup
- August 17 Playoffs (Quarterfinals)
- August 18 Playoffs (Semifinals)
- August 25 (NBA 2K League Finals)