When the NBA announced the Board of Governors had agreed on a date to resume the 2019-20 NBA season (July 31) at Disney in Orlando, the league also revealed the 2020 Draft and Lottery had been pushed back.
The 2020 NBA Draft Lottery will be held on August 25 and the 2020 NBA Draft will be on October 15, three days after Game 7 of the 2020 NBA Finals (if necessary).
With the league’s modified 22-team format and potential play-in game between the eighth and ninth-seeded teams in each conference — and Kevin Durant ruling himself out for the remainder of the season and Kyrie Irving not expected to play either — the Nets could find themselves in the lottery come August. But a lot has to go wrong for Brooklyn on the floor for that to happen.
The league’s series of decisions could have a further impact on the Nets, as ESPN‘s Bobby Mark points out on Twitter. Both Garrett Temple and Theo Pinson have club options. The language surrounding each “aligns with the date of the draft.”
According to Marks, “Those contracts would now get adjusted from late June to mid-October.”