A year ago, the NBA waited until midway through the season to finalize its schedule for the second half, recognizing the need to be flexible and to account for postponements. Sure enough, more than 30 games were eventually needed to be rescheduled, primarily due to complications related to COVID-19.
Heading into 2021/22, there was a hope that fewer – if any – postponements would be required. The league released its entire schedule at once and made it through most of the first two months of the regular season without having any games affected by COVID-19 outbreaks.
However, that has changed as of late. So, with the number of postponements beginning to add up, we’re creating a space to track them all. The full list of postponed 2021/22 games is below. Once the NBA announces plans to reschedule these contests, we’ll add those details to our breakdown.
This tracker will continue to be updated throughout the ’21/22 league year, and can be found anytime in the “Hoops Rumors Features” menu on the right-hand sidebar of our desktop site, or in the “Features” menu on our mobile site.
Detroit Pistons at Chicago Bulls
- Original date: December 14, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Bulls were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: January 11, 2022
Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors
- Original date: December 16, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Bulls were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: February 3, 2022
New Orleans Pelicans at Philadelphia 76ers
- Original date: December 19, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Sixers were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: January 25, 2022
Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks
- Original date: December 19, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Cavaliers were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: March 31, 2022
Denver Nuggets at Brooklyn Nets
- Original date: December 19, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Nets were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: January 26, 2022
Orlando Magic at Toronto Raptors
- Original date: December 20, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Magic were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: March 4, 2022
Washington Wizards at Brooklyn Nets
- Original date: December 21, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Nets were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak.
- New date: February 17, 2022
Toronto Raptors at Chicago Bulls
- Original date: December 22, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Raptors didn’t have the required minimum of eight players available.
- New date: January 26, 2022
Brooklyn Nets at Portland Trail Blazers
- Original date: December 23, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Nets didn’t have the required minimum of eight players available.
- New date: January 10, 2022
Miami Heat at San Antonio Spurs
- Original date: December 29, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Heat didn’t have the required minimum of eight players available.
- New date: February 3, 2022
Golden State Warriors at Denver Nuggets
- Original date: December 30, 2021
- Reason for postponement: The Nuggets didn’t have the required minimum of eight players available.
- New date: March 7, 2022
Stop testing & will be no need to cancel games, can’t be any easier than that, right?
So we can all enjoy some games with the real NBA feeling not this G-League underwhelming product we are having to put up with!
Care to elaborate on how that would be helpful? Because it sounds like you are saying that if the NBA stops testing players, we can just ignore Covid and continue playing games without worrying about whom spreads it to whom.
Didn’t thay work for HIV in the late 80s and early 90s? If you don’t get tested you can’t get it.
Works for cancer. Let it go unrecognized until it kills the host, and that kills the cancer too!