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The NBA lockout came to an end early last week, and now the 2011 – 12-season schedule is being released. With training camps set to begin in just over a week, and the season set to start on Christmas Day, fans, college basketball betting should be excited as ever before. Today we’ll be examining why this year’s NBA schedule could be the best of all time.

As a result of the four-month lockout, the NBA was forced to diminish their schedule from 82 to 66 regular season games. For this reason, many teams find themselves in the unfortunate situation of having to play weeks at a time instead of every couple of days. One team that will feel the affects of the schedule early is the Los Angeles Lakers. The best bookie software team of the decade opens the season with three games in a row, before receiving their first break. With this being the case, the Lakers are looking to make a splash in free agency and by trade, so that they can field a young up beat roster this season.

In theory, a 66 game schedule, works better for younger players, as they play about 66 games during a college basketball season. Looking closer at the schedule, there will be 42 back-to-back sequences this season affecting the entire NBA. Some teams will be forced to play more triple games then others. But that is the cost of being one of the more popular teams in the league for the last few years. As this is the case, you can expect the NBA to look similar to the NFL this season in some ways. That is to say, because smaller market teams may not be hit with as daunting a schedule, they will have a better opportunity to make it to the playoffs.