• NBA - Will resume with 22-team tournament

It is official in the absence of the players union (NBPA) granting its approval on Friday. And as long as the health situation does not make it unfeasible. The NBA returns, with a format as novel as a priori spectacular. With Disney's ESPN Wide World Of Sports facilities as the perfect and safe environment for more than two months of intense basketball. The Board of Governors approved by a large majority (29-1, only the Blazers voted against) this Thursday Adam Silver's roadmap: 22 teams, eight games each, play in and, later, playoffs as always, the best of seven, from which the champion will emerge. It will be historic, although the lights of the return of the best league in the world leave some questions.

In less than two months, July 31, the ball - for the penultimate time Spalding before Wilson's relief - will bounce back into the NBA. Each of the 22 teams - the top eight from each conference plus five from the West and the Wizards in the East - will arrive in advance on July 7 and play eight games. If the eighth is not more than four ahead of the ninth, they will play a tie in which they would only lose that place by losing twice (and not winning any). The draft lottery will be on August 25 and the draft on October 15 , a few days after the last game of the Finals, which will never be after 12 of that month.

That, the schedule, is one of the shadows that threaten the future of the NBA, since another restructuring plan will be needed for next season. The League itself talks about the beginning on December 1 or, perhaps, already on Christmas dates, but if it gets longer, it could collide with the celebration of the Tokyo Games , delayed until the summer of 2021. From Barcelona 92 ​​the stars There is no shortage of every Olympic event. This time it does not seem that it will be so simple.

91 acres at Disney

In addition to minimizing economic losses and the positive impact of the NBA's return, it does not seem that the seclusion of the teams in the fantastic scenario chosen in Orlando will be an inconvenience, although the families of the players cannot access until the beginning of the playoffs. In addition to sports, a 91-hectare campus with several courts that could host games at once, the bubble that will be created, with all sanitary protocols, has Disney's own resorts and even its golf courses.

Everything perfect for the participants. But what about the eight teams that have been left out? It is another of the great unknowns to solve. Because from the last March 11 the NBA was suspended by the positive of Rudy Gobert until surely the month of December, more than 120 players and stars like Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Trae Young, Karl Anthony Towns, Blake Griffin , Zach Lavine or Kevin Love, or Juancho and Willy Hernangómez, are not going to play any game. Several of those franchises - Charlotte, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Cleveland, Minnesota, and Golden State - have already expressed concern about what that will mean for their players' development.

In addition to the plans that the NBA itself may develop for those teams, there are still some elements of the restart plan that could be changed. Negotiations are also being negotiated as to the percentage of wages players will lose from the non-dispute for the entire regular season. With 15% not at stake, all players would have to give up approximately $ 610 million in wages this season.

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