Late next month, the NBA will be descending on Walt Disney Resort for one of the strangest experiments ever undertaken in professional sports. michaelgrange breaks down what that return will look like, and what has to happen for it to work:
Late next month NBA players and staff will be descending on Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando for one of the strangest experiments ever undertaken in the annals of professional sport.As they gather for the 2019-20 season 2.0, under a lavish quarantine bubble, there will plenty of ways to while away their free time in between playing enough games to ‘complete’ the regular season before heading into the playoffs.
Yet after a 29-1 vote of the board of governors — the committee representing the mostly-billionaire owners of the 30 franchises — on Thursday and what is expected to be a largely rubber-stamped players union approval Friday, the 2019-20 season will resume in late July with plans calling for a champion to be crowned no later than October 12.
We now can look forward to nearly two months of hype around a delicious list of storylines before the playoffs begin.
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