Friday, June 12, 2020

NBA Sets Remaining Season Schedule

     The National Basketball Association set the dates for the rest of the 2019-20 season. The league was suspended on March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The NBA season will resume at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex outside of Orlando.
     22 NBA clubs will play eight contests each from July 30 until August 14 to complete the regular season. It will determine where teams will be seeded in their conferences for the NBA Playoffs.
     Possible play-in rounds may be needed on August 15 and August 16. It would involve the eighth seed and the ninth seed in each conference. The eighth seed would need to be victorious once to advance into the postseason while the ninth seed would have to win two games.
     The official start of the postseason is on August 17. The conference semifinals would go from August 31 to September 13 and the conference finals from September 15 until September 28. The NBA Finals would occur from September 30 to October 13.

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