The outline of the 2020-21 NBA season is starting to come into focus.
The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports that the NBA is planning to have preseason between December 11th and December 19th, with each team having the option to request a three or four game schedule, with at least one home game on the slate.
With the regular season slated to start on December 22nd and training camps to start on the first day of that month, the league’s post-draft calendar is filling out rapidly less than two weeks after an impasse between the NBA and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) on when to start the season.
Sources: The NBA is targeting Dec. 11-19 for 2020-21 preseason and teams have the option of requesting three or four games. Each team must host at least one home game.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 14, 2020
With the NBA draft slated for November 18th, concrete dates for contract options and free agency are among the last question marks to be resolved in the league’s short term future.
With the effects of the pandemic shaping this most unusual transition between seasons even still, clarification on the NBA’s COVID-19 policies will also be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
