JAKARTA - The NBA Board of Governors will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, June 4 at noon local time. Reportedly, this meeting will determine the fate of the continuation of the 2019-2020 NBA season.
ESPN columnist Adrian Wojnarowski reports, this competition will only be followed by 22 teams from July 31 to October 12 at the Disney World Orlando complex. The 22-team format covered the remainder of the regular season and the playoff phases through to the finals proposed by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Apart from the 16 teams that occupy the top eight - playoff zone - in the standings of each region, five Western Conference teams and one Eastern Conference team will be involved with the precondition of only being six wins from the playoff zone.
In the Western Conference, the top eight contains the Los Angeles Lakers who have a record of 49 wins and 14 losses (49-14), followed by the Los Angeles Clippers (44-20), Denver Nuggets (43-22), Utah Jazz (41-23), Oklahoma City Thunder (40-24), Houston Rockets (40-24), Dallas Mavericks (40-27) and Memphis Grizzlies (32-33).
The top eight in the Eastern Conference consists of the Milwaukee Bucks (53-12), the Toronto Raptors (46-18), the Boston Celtics (43-21), the Miami Heat (41-24), the Indiana Pacers (39-26), the Philadelphia 76ers (39-26), Brooklyn Nets (30-34) and Orlando Magic (30-35).
The six teams that will take part in the rest of the 2019/20 season are the Portland Trail Blazers (29-37), New Orleans Pelicans (28-36), Sacramento Kings (28-36), San Antonio Spurs (27-36) and Phoenix. Suns (26-39) from the Western Conference and Washington Wizards (24-40) from the Eastern Conference.
The rest of the season is planned to play eight regular season games to ensure the eight teams playoff zone each region. The NBA also opens up a series of play-in tournament options to determine the eighth-ranked team and the playoffs.
The play-in tournament will be followed by the eighth and ninth ranked teams, with a record that the ninth-ranked team ends the regular season only four wins away from the eighth-ranked team.
If that scenario occurs, the team ranked eighth will enter the play-in tournament with a double elimination format, while the single elimination applies to the team ranked ninth.
The season continuation teams are scheduled to continue to undergo training sessions at their respective headquarters in July before leaving for the next full training camp in Orlando.
The NBA has strict health protocols in its continuation plans for the season, but players and coaches are allowed to play golf or eat in outdoor restaurants provided they adhere to distancing practices.
The 2019/20 NBA season has been suspended since March 11 after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19.
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