The National Basketball Association is getting closer to finalizing a plan that will involve 22 teams going to Orlando, Florida, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. A vote to pass the format for the NBA’s restart is expected at Thursday’s Board of Governors conference call, according to Woj, while Game 7 of the NBA Finals is expected to be scheduled for October 12.
With 22 teams being invited to Orlando, that would be the teams that are currently in the 16-team playoff picture, as well as the five teams on the playoff bubble in the Western Conference (Portland, New Orleans, Sacramento, San Antonio, Phoenix) and the Washington Wizards out of the Eastern Conference.
According to other reports about what the league’s executives have voted on, a couple of regular season games followed by some kind of play-in tournament for the final playoff seeds is the expected outcome, rather than a potentially even more exciting group stage scenario.
