2016-2017 ABA season (Colony Crisis Averted)

The 2016–17 NBA season is the 71th season of the American Basketball Association.The NBA draft took place on June 25, 2016, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Ben Simmons was selected first overall. The regular season will begin on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in Quicken Loans Arena, home of the 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers. Christmas games will be played on Friday, December 23, 2016. The 2017 NBA All-Star Game will be played at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, February 12, 2017. The regular season will end on Wednesday, April 13, 2017 and the playoffs will begin on Saturday, April 15, 2017.