The NBA returns July 30 with :
The NBA released its reopening schedule on Friday , which begins on Thursday, July 30 in Orlando (Florida), with LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard and Zion Williamson as major stars. The NBA has never faced the challenge of restarting a season after a hiatus of more than four months.
The season will restart Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz, who tested positive for coronavirus on March 11, and who motivated the NBA to suspend the championship. Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans will restart the actions when facing the Jazz , of Gobert.
That same day, James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers return to the field of play, in search of the title, facing Leonard, Paul George and the Clippers. That match is between the two best teams in the West. The Lakers (49-14) lead that conference with a 5.5-game lead over the Clippers (44-20).
A day later, on July 31, there will be six games, something that will take place seven times on the calendar. The Memphis Grizzlies and Portland Trail Blazers will meet in a key game in the quest for eighth place in the Western Conference . The Grizzlies (32-33) have a 3.5-game lead over the Trail Blazers, the Pelicans and the Kings and a four-game lead over the Spurs.
That same day, the Boston Celtics face the Milwaukee Bucks , and the Houston Rockets face the Dallas Mavericks .
On Saturday, August 1, there will be five games, featuring the Miami Heat against the Denver Nuggets , and the Trail Blazers against the Celtics.
A day later the Bucks will play against the Rockets, in a day of six games.
The restart of the championship will have 22 teams and activity from July 30 to August 14.
In three of those days seven games will be played, and each team will also play a consecutive series.
On August 9, one of the days seven games are scheduled, the Washington Wizards and the Oklahoma City Thunder will face off.
According to the new season restart rules, if at the end of the qualifying matches, a team is within four games of the eighth qualifier, then a play-in tournament will be held to determine the eighth team in the Conference that will advance to the postseason.
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Coronavirus in the NBA: 16 positives among the 302 players after the analyzes:
The NBA has just announced the results of the tests that the 302 players of the championship have submitted . And the results have revealed that 16 of them have tested positive . Until now some are known like those of Nikola Jokic, Nuggets , and Malcolm Brogdom, Pacers.
The 16 infected players will have to be quarantined for 14 days before being tested again and will then be reevaluated to see if they can join the Orlando tournament that will be played at the Disney Complex from July 30.
At the end of June, according to the protocol established by the NBA, the 22 teams that will participate in Orlando must travel to Florida to start the preseason before the championship resumes.
