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The details of the proposed plan for the NBA to return to the 2019-20 season, which is expected to be voted on Thursday, emerged in a new report by Shams Charania of The Athletic.
The NBA will present the plan to the Board of Governors on Thursday in which 22 teams will begin playing at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The 22-team format will include the 16 current playoff teams and six additional teams with the potential for a play-in tournament for the eighth seed.
Each team that travels to Disney will play in eight regular-season games for seeding purposes for the playoffs. After the eight games, if the ninth seed is fewer than four games behind the eighth seed, the two teams will participate in a play-in tournament. If the eighth seed is more than four games ahead of the ninth seed, the eighth seed earns the playoff berth.
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN first reported the eight-game regular-season format.
The NBA Draft Lottery and Draft Combine, according to the report, would take place in August at a location to be determined. The league has looked at potentially holding the Draft Combine virtually with many teams expecting it to happen that way due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The NBA season would run from July 31 until Oct. 12.
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