Insights on Warriors 2023-24 Schedule
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The Warriors open the 2023-24 season at Chase Center, hosting the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 24 (7 P.M, TNT). The Dubs will then head on the road, playing seven of their next eight games away from home. The team will conclude the regular season playing nine of their final 12 games on the road.
Read below for more insights and notes for the Warriors’ upcoming schedule.
The Dubs are scheduled to make 29 national TV appearances during the 2022-23 regular season, the seventh time in the last eight seasons the team will be featured in that many national TV games (TNT – 12, ESPN – 12 and ABC – 5). In addition, the Warriors will make 12 appearances on NBA TV. In 2021-22, the Warriors appeared on national TV a franchise-record 33 times.The Warriors open the regular season at home for the 18th time in the last 22 years. The Warriors have won their previous two season openers, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in back-to-back seasons. This is the 10th time the Warriors will open a regular season against the Phoenix Suns, having most recently defeated them on opening night 87-85 in the 2012-13 season.All 30 NBA teams will participate in the In-Season Tournament, with Group Play starting on November 3. Each team will play four Group Play Games in November and the top eight teams will advance to the Knockout Round (December 4, 5, 7, 9). In-Season Tournament Games are part of the regular season schedule and will count towards the regular season standings (with the exception of the Championship Game on December 9).The Warriors have recorded a franchise-record 477 consecutive home sellouts in both the regular season and playoffs (with an allowed full-capacity crowd of 18,064). The current streak ranks third among active streaks and seventh all-time.All weekday home games during the 2023-24 regular season will tip off at 7 P.M. All Saturday and Sunday home games will have a start time of 5:30 P.M., except for two nationally-televised games – 4 P.M. on Sunday, February 25 vs. the NBA Champion Denver Nuggets on ABC and 12:30 P.M. on Sunday, April 14 with the Utah Jazz in the regular season finale. Fifty percent (20 of the 40 home games) of the Warriors’ currently-announced home games will be played on the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).The Dubs will play 15 of 20 games at home from December 19 to January 30, including 10 home games in the month of January. The Warriors’ longest homestand is a seven-game stretch, from December 28 to January 10. The Dubs also have a six-game homestand (November 11-20).The Warriors and NBA Champion Denver Nuggets will matchup on December 25, Golden State’s 12th-consecutive appearance on the holiday and 13th Christmas Day game in the last 14 years. This is the first time these two teams meet on Christmas Day.On Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15, 2024), the Warriors will play against the Grizzlies in Memphis. Since the holiday was first observed in 1986, the Warriors have played 30 times on this day (20-10 overall record) and this will mark the 11th time in the last 12 years (missing only 2022 in that span) and the sixth consecutive time on the road.The Warriors play on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024 at San Antonio – marking the eighth time in the last 10 years the Dubs play on Easter.For the second straight year, the Warriors host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Veterans Day, November 11. This is the third time these two teams meet on this holiday (1975 and 2022), with the Warriors winning all three meetings. The Warriors have won 10 of their last 14 Veterans Day games, including three of the last four. It will be 60 years since the Warriors played the Knicks on Leap Year Day, February 29. On February 29, 1964, Golden State played at New York, earning a 136-110 win at Madison Square Garden. This is the 13th time in franchise history the Warriors play on Leap Year Day. The team’s longest road trip of the season runs from March 24 to April 4, playing seven games in 12 days. The last time the Warriors had a road trip of that length was during the 2015-16 season when they had two such trips of seven games (November 30 to December 12, 2015 and February 10-27, 2016).Throughout the course of the season, the Warriors will travel an estimated total distance of 44,000 miles. Last season the Warriors traveled an estimated total of 47,000 miles.The Dubs are scheduled to play 15 back-to-back sets, marking the fourth-straight season with that many back-to-backs and the second consecutive season leading the NBA. The Warriors have seven sets of away-away back-to-backs, one set of away/home and one home/away set in 2023-24. The Warriors will play six home-home back-to-back sets, the most since they played a franchise-record seven in 1968-69. The only other time the Warriors had six-or-more home-home back-to-backs was in 1965-66 when they had six. The six home-home back-to-back sets in 2023-24: November 11-12, December 22-23, January 4-5, January 24-25, February 22-23, March 6-7.Games by day of the week: Monday – 9, Tuesday – 11, Wednesday – 12, Thursday – 12, Friday – 13, Saturday – 12, Sunday – 11.Games by month: October – 4, November – 15, December – 13, January – 14, February – 13, March – 16, April – 7.
