NBA owners reportedly approve plan to resume season in July, set new lottery and draft dates
Silver presented his proposal on a conference call on Thursday, and the league’s owners reportedly voted 29-1 in support. The Portland Trail Blazers were the lone opposition vote, according to Wojnarowski. The NBA has been on hiatus since Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus on March 11.
The decision to return now lies with the National Basketball Players Association, which plans to host a virtual meeting on the matter on Friday afternoon, according to The New York Times’ Marc Stein. It is not immediately clear whether the NBPA will hold a formal vote on endorsing Silver’s plan in the meeting.
Barring another force majeure, the NBA plans to host the 16 teams currently in playoff position, plus the teams with the next six-best records at Walt Disney World Resort for eight additional regular-season games starting July 31. The playoffs would end no later than Oct. 12. Per Wojnarowski, the draft is now set for Oct. 15, leaving a 72-hour window for teams to conduct official business between a possible Game 7 and draft night.
The NBA will hold a play-in series between the eighth- and ninth-place teams in either conference if they are within four games of each other at regular season’s end. The ninth-place team must then win two straight head-to-head games to enter the playoffs as an eighth seed. The Wizards trail the eighth-place Orlando Magic by 5 1/2 games in the Eastern Conference. The Blazers, Pelicans, Kings and Spurs are all within four games of the eighth-place Memphis Grizzlies in the West.
Story continuesThe NBA will be the most popular sports league to resume games this summer if the league and its players’ union reach an agreement. The NHL, MLS and NWSL have previously announced their plans to return.Ben Rohrbach is a staff writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @brohrbach
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