There is not an enormous amount of variation in NBA schedules from team to team. Each team plays most of its conference cohorts four times a year and a few of them three times, with two games against teams in the opposite conference. Everyone, of course, will end up playing 82 games in the regular season.

The NBA announced its full schedule on Thursday, and for now, each team has 80 games on its slate. They will all have an additional pair of games scheduled following the completion of NBA Cup Group Play ; the dates and opponents depend on which teams qualify for the Knockout Rounds.

Now that the schedule is out, it is time to analyze it. Where do NBA schedules vary from team to team, what is meaningful about the Sixers' schedule, and lastly, what is interesting about the Sixers' sched

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