The NBA plan to restart the 2019-20 season next month took shape Wednesday with the Board of Governors expected to approve a 22-team return-to-play scenario Thursday, according to multiple reports.
The plan had widespread support among NBA owners, sufficient to get the three-fourths majority needed, a person with knowledge of conversations among league officials said.
In the plan NBA commissioner Adam Silver will propose, the league will invite the 16 teams that were in position to make the playoffs when the season was halted March 11 to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex outside of Orlando, Fla. Six teams that were still competing to reach the playoffs — Portland, New Orleans, Sacramento, San Antonio, Phoenix and Washington — would also resume their seasons.
After a training camp on site of roughly 2½ weeks, teams would play an eight-game schedule to complete the regular season and determine playoff seeding, giving them the 70 games required in most regional sports network contracts and potentially determine participants in a brief play-in tournament for the eighth seeds in a playoff bracket.
If the ninth-place team is more than four games out of eighth, the eighth seed would advance to the playoffs. If the ninth seed is within four games, the eighth and ninth seeds would play with the eighth seed needing to win one game to advance and the ninth seed needing to win twice.
The Rockets were tied with Oklahoma City for fifth and were the sixth seed in the Western Conference when play was stopped. They were four games out of second place and with a 12-game lead on ninth place Portland, assuring they would reach the playoffs in the proposed restart plan.
The NBA and National Basketball Players Association will have to reach agreements on the plan given the dramatic loss of revenue and revised schedule.
“The NBA definitely has their act together between the players and the league and the owners,” Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said Tuesday on CNBC. “We all want this to happen. You’re not going to have issues there. We're going to play basketball at the end of July. Everybody knows that. It's going to happen.
“We're all going to come to terms with this in the next couple of days. I know our players around the league are getting in shape and we’re going to have great NBA basketball this summer."
The plan was viewed as a compromise between bringing all 30 teams back and increasing the risk amid the coronavirus pandemic and limiting participants to only teams in position to reach the playoffs. There was ambivalence among teams with no chance at reaching the play-in tournament about returning to play for a brief regular-season schedule that would not last as long as the training camp needed.
Though a variety of scenarios had been discussed, arguments had been made in favor of keeping as much of the familiar playoff format as possible, with teams still playing best-of-seven series in the post-season.
With games beginning July 31, the Finals could stretch to Oct. 12, keeping participating teams in Florida from the start of training to the season’s end for three months.
The NBA draft lottery and combine would be held in August with the draft and start of free agency pushed back to October.
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