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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29260860/sources-nba-approve-plan-22-team-return-eight-regular-season-games

The basic details go something like this -- not sure of final vote yet.

22 teams, more West than East.  (Any team within striking distance of playoffs.) 
They play 8 "regular season games".  Then seed a playoff.

All games played at Disney World in Orlando. 


Sounds cool; I'm excited by it.

I'm all for this, Heat .. 2020 champions !

All sports are coming back  >:D

That is fantastic news. Hopefully the Lakers can start where they left off. You know, most dominant team in the league. Destined to win the Finals.

the nba voted and approved this .. 7/31 is the start date looks like

So, they're not going to have a regular 2020/2021 season?

Listen, it's over. You don't take 4 months off and then go back to where you left off. Everything has changed, just end the season and start fresh for next year. This is a joke and an asterisk season, might as well have celebrities play too and just donate the money to charity. It will be just as authentic.

i'll take a * championship .. a few years from now no-one will care

It will be similarly viewed as the 1982 Redskins SB.

This season ends in October and the next starts games December 1st meaning they start training in November. I hope they enjoyed their off season.

They could delay the start of next season.  Heck, they might not be able to finish this one depending on how the disease goes.

And so are the Lakers. 5 wins away from it all boys

Bring it on Miami. I really would have preferred a Lakers/Celtics Finals, but beating the Heat will be almost as good as beating the Celtics.

Heat in 6

and just to re-iterate:

Seems like decidedly less enthusiasm on this board than there was for the Heatles.  Some of that is to be expected - the 2020 Heat are a Cinderella team - but you guys should be excited about a good team with a young core that wants to stay in Miami.  If the Heat pick up a good piece in the offseason, they could be the Warriors of the Eastern Conference.

Well I'm nervous. I don't like being up 2-1 against this surprise team that wasn't supposed to be there. And I really hate Jimmy Butler right now. Big game tonight. Lakers better channel Kobe for this one.

It's harder to be a big supporter of the team on the Internet right now because we're not supposed to be there.  We're outclassed.  But we're still finding a way to get it done.  There's not a lot to analyze.  It's hard to look at matchups and figure out how you're going to deal with Duncan Jones getting switched to Lebron James.

Duncan Robinson does ok. Tyler Herro does ok.

The moment we lost Dragic and Bam for a few games the series was realistically over.

Dragic was our leading scorer in the playoffs and helped set the tempo for our team.

Other than Dragic (and butler) the team is so very young. They have massive cap space available and could sign 1 maybe 2 more max type players in 2021.  while still retaining Bam/herro/duncan on their team. They're setup for long term success.

Anybody else notice that the “Bubble” leagues, NBA and NHL didn’t have any Corona issues while MLB and NFL have had serious issues with the virus?

Whatcha say?

Much smaller team and staff size. Not saying that is the only factor, but an NBA team has around 14 players, an NFL team has almost that money on the field at any given time.

NBA did a superb job, IMO.  I couldn't have asked for a better basketball experience considering the hand they were dealt.