NBA starts season with a duel of Miami Heat vs Chicago Bulls

The first meeting of the 2013-2014 season of the millionaire American Basketball League will be on October 29.

The duel between the Heats, current champions, and the Bulls will be one of the three games scheduled for the first day of the season, according to the schedule released by the NBA.

The Indiana Pacers, reinforced by the Argentine forward Luis Scola, will receive the Orlando Magics, while Los Angeles Lakers, with doubts about his star Kobe Bryant, will play against their neighbors Los Angeles Clippers, and their new coach, Doc Rivers.

This season the NBA scheduled regular season games, for the first time in two countries outside the United States and Canada, when San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves will face each other in the city of Mexico on December 4, and the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks will play in London on  January 16.

Calendar provides for 82 games and the regular season will conclude on April 16, 2014; the all-star game will be on February 16 in New Orleans.