It’s a different kind of NBA schedule than we’ve ever seen.

First, the Jazz have a seven-game road trip in early January, when they’ll play San Antonio, Brooklyn, New York, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, and Washington from Jan. 3 to Jan. 15. That’s the longest Jazz road trip since 2002, when the Jazz vacated the Delta Center for the Olympic Winter Games.

But to follow that road trip up, they have a six game home stand in late January, against New Orleans twice, Golden State, New York, and then Dallas twice.

You’ll notice the grouped games — that’s an unusual theme of this schedule, in order to reduce travel as much as possible. The Jazz also fly to Los Angeles to play the Clippers twice consecutively in February.

In the first half of the season, the Jazz will have nine national TV games: five on NBATV, two on ESPN, and two on TNT.

The second half of the schedule will be released later in the season; the league wanted to maintain flexibility in case of COVID-19 postponements.