Wizards start 2019-20 season on the road

ByCarita Parks

Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

The Washington Wizards can now start planning more strategically for their upcoming opponents with today’s release of the 2019-20 regular season schedule. The Wizards will begin the season with three road contests for the first time since the 1983-84 season. The team will open at Dallas on Oct. 23rd, and then travel to Oklahoma City (Oct. 25) and San Antonio (Oct. 26) before their home opener versus the Houston Rockets on Oct. 30th at 8:00 p.m.

The Wizards will play 20 of their 41 home games on the weekend (Friday-Sunday), with eight of those dates falling on Friday night and six on Saturday night (with all Saturday night matchups beginning at 8:00 p.m.). This season’s home schedule also includes two holiday games: a New Year’s Day matchup against the Orlando Magic at 6:00 p.m. and an MLK Day matinée against the Detroit Pistons (Jan. 20) at 2:00 p.m.

The home schedule features two visits from the Milwaukee Bucks (Feb. 24 and March 21), the Philadelphia 76ers (Dec. 5 and Apr. 3) and the Boston Celtics (Jan. 6 and March 23), as well as visits from the Los Angeles Clippers (Dec. 8), Golden State Warriors (Feb. 3), and the Los Angeles Lakers (March 28).

Each team in the Eastern Conference will visit Capital One Arena twice with the exception of the defending NBA Champion Toronto Raptors (Apr. 7) and the Indiana Pacers (Apr. 15). The Wizards will visit the Cleveland Cavaliers (Jan. 23) and Brooklyn Nets (March 18) only once during the regular season.

Washington’s longest homestand is a six-game, 13-day stretch from Jan. 30th – Feb. 11th. They will also have two seven-day, four-game trips: one from Nov. 26th-Dec.1st (Denver, Phoenix, L.A. Lakers, and L.A. Clippers) and the other from Jan. 22nd-28th (Miami, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Milwaukee). The Wizards head back west from Feb. 28th-March 4th when they play Utah, Golden State, Sacramento, and Portland.

There are 13 back-to-backs scheduled, including a set of consecutive home games at Capital One Arena when Washington hosts Portland and Denver on Jan. 3rd-4th. View the full schedule below: