There were two important warm-up events before the regular season, the summer league and the preseason. Summer League (NBA Summer League) held after the draft, by the rookie and three years old ball age players to participate, mainly for the study of new people, also known as the "Las Vegas League." The preseason is held in October each year for the last warm-up match before the regular season. Each team to participate in the preseason list of players the basic and regular season the same, but the main time to play very little to avoid injury, the coach also take this opportunity to practice a different lineup. Summer league and preseason games allow non-NBA teams to participate, while the NBA (To View More About NBA Live Mobile Coins) will be part of the preseason arranged in overseas.

NBA season is held in the first week of November each year, the regular season (Regular season) officially kicked off. In the regular season, each team needs to play 82 games, home and away each half, which with the same team to play four games, with the same league teams in different races to play three to four, and another A league team to play two games; a season each team in their own home at least with the other 29 teams for a confrontation, NBA is the only top professional sports in North America all the teams in the regular season all meet the alliance. Regular season schedule is relatively compact, the team has three to four games per week, and each season have different degrees of "back to back for the game", continuous away for the race and other difficult schedule. In addition to the opener, the Christmas season is also the focus of the regular season tournament; NBA in the annual Christmas arrangement of the game, usually the most popular star between the confrontation, such as 2007 ~ 2008 season Christmas game by LeBron James led the Cleveland Cavaliers against Dwyane Wade led the Miami Heat. The regular season also has the most valuable player of the East (West) Department and the most valuable player of the East (West) Department every month.

After entering the regular season, the team can still trade until the 16th Thursday of the season, this day is the deadline for the player to trade. But after this period the team can still dismiss the players in the team, or with the free agent signed a 10-day contract.