The NBA is preparing for a potential restart after more than two months have passed since the season first came to a sudden halt on March 11. To do so, the league must ensure it can be done safely and reduce the number of coronavirus infections throughout the rest of the season and the postseason.
As Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer points out: medical professionals agree that upon arriving at a neutral site, individual players must quarantine for multiple days and be tested repeatedly to prevent an outbreak.
In addition to that, Marc Stein of The New York Times reports that NBA teams have been informed they would likely be allowed to bring (roughly) 35 players/coaches/staff into a “campus” environment if the 2019-20 season indeed resumes. Normally, travel parties routinely exceed 50.
Those parties might need to be broken down into smaller groups to prevent the outbreak as well, as keeping record of those who are usually together can prove vital in discovering new cases or avoiding them altogether.
The NBA is reportedly considering a 70-game regular season, which would leave most teams with roughly five games to play before rolling into the postseason. This is mostly to account for would-be lost television revenue, as most teams have local broadcasting contracts that circle 70 games as the criteria.
Spencer Dinwiddie of the Brooklyn Nets potentially leaked the restart date of July 15, as most NBA teams will return to Training Camp 2.0 around June 21 — giving them roughly three weeks to ready up for action once again.
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