• NBA - The Options To End The Season

It will be official this Thursday, with the meeting of Adam Silver with the owners of the NBA franchises, but all the details are practically revealed. The return of the NBA is a fact and it will have a new and spectacular format, finally with 22 of the 30 teams present at the mega-complex ESPN World Wide of Sports by Disney, in Orlando.

They will be the 16 that currently, after the break due to the positive for Rudy Gobert's coronavirus on March 11, were in playoff positions at both conferences. Plus six others, five from the West (New Orleans, Portland, Phoenix, Sacramento and San Antonio) and one from the East (Washington) . That is, those who maintain real options for the eight games to play for each one in the designed format.

This means that three of the five Spanish players who are currently active in the NBA will be present at Disney's historic outcome behind closed doors. Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka with the Raptors and Ricky Rubio with the Suns. The Hernangómez brothers, Willy and Juancho, would thus end their season, since neither the Hornets nor the Timberwolves will be at the event.

According to the information advanced by the journalist Adrian Wojnarowski, a complicated and original system has also been designed to, if necessary, play a tie to award the two eighth places of each Conference. It would only be in the event that the ninth would be less than four wins from that last position that normally gives access to the playoffs . If so, both would dispute it in a tie, but whoever ranked ninth would need two wins to pass. And the eighth only one.

That will finally be the chosen format, despite the fact that others were being considered: that only the best 16 will participate, that they will play 20 with a group stage or even directly the 30. It also remains to be official, but the dates handled by the NBA are those of July 31 for the start and, at the latest, October 12 for the last game of the Finals.

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