NBA Announces the Schedule for 2019-2020 Season Restart
Despite 16 players testing positive for Coronavirus.
As basketball fans wait for the July 30 restart of the 2019-2020 Season, the NBA has now announced the schedule for the upcoming games.
During a special one-hour NBA Countdown special, the league unveiled the revised schedule for the remaining season along with accompanying details. The regular-season games for the rest of the 2019-2020 Season will feature 22 teams playing eight seeding games at Disney‘s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando. All teams will also be required to play one back-to-back.
The 2019-2020 regular season is expected to go until August 14 with playoffs to begin August 17, followed by the NBA Finals on September 30.
Despite the 2019-2020 Season set to resume with a doubleheader with the Utah Jazz facing off against the New Orleans Pelicans, followed by a matchup between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers, a number of players have tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). According to details, 302 players expected to return to play were tested in late July were tested with 16 of those results were positive.
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— NBA (@NBA) June 27, 2020
NBA restart schedule notes:
- Maximum seven games per day, tip-offs between 12 p.m. and 9 p.m.
- Three total courts, two for national TV— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 26, 2020
The NBA and @TheNBPA announce that 16 players of the 302 tested this week have recorded a positive coronavirus test … pic.twitter.com/Sj8Hb5jRxQ
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 26, 2020
July 30
Utah vs. New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. (TNT)
L.A. Clippers vs. L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m. (TNT)July 31
Orlando vs. Brooklyn, 2:30 p.m.
Memphis vs. Portland, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Phoenix vs. Washington, 4 p.m.
Boston vs. Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Sacramento vs. San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Houston vs. Dallas, 9 p.m. (ESPN)
August 1
Miami vs. Denver, 1 p.m. (ESPN)
Utah vs. Oklahoma City, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
New Orleans vs. L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m. (ESPN)
Philadelphia vs. Indiana. 7 p.m.
L.A. Lakers vs. Toronto, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)August 2
Washington vs. Brooklyn, 2 p.m.
Portland vs. Boston, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
San Antonio vs. Memphis, 4 p.m.
Sacramento vs. Orlando, 6 p.m. (NBATV)
Milwaukee vs. Houston, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
Dallas vs. Phoenix, 9 p.m.August 3
Toronto vs. Miami, 1:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Denver vs. Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Indiana vs Washington, 4 p.m.
Memphis vs. New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
San Antonio vs. Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers vs. Utah, 9 p.m. (ESPN)August 4
Brooklyn vs. Milwaukee, 1:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Dallas vs. Sacramento, 2:30 p.m.
Phoenix vs. L.A. Clippers, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Orlando vs. Indiana, 6 p.m.
Boston vs. Miami, 6:30 p.m. (TNT)
Houston vs. Portland, 9 p.m. (TNT)August 5
Memphis vs. Utah, 2:30 p.m.
Philadelphia vs. Washington, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Denver vs. San Antonio, 4 p.m.
Oklahoma City vs. L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Toronto vs. Orlando, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn vs. Boston, 9 p.m. (ESPN)August 6
New Orleans vs. Sacramento, 1:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Miami vs. Milwaukee, 4 p.m. (TNT)
Indiana vs. Phoenix, 4 p.m.
L.A. Clippers vs. Dallas, 6:30 p.m. (TNT)
Portland vs. Denver, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers vs. Houston, 9 p.m. (TNT)August 7
Utah vs. San Antonio, 1 p.m.
Oklahoma City vs. Memphis, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Sacramento vs. Brooklyn, 5 p.m.
Orlando vs. Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. (TNT)
Washington vs. New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Boston vs. Toronto, 9 p.m. (TNT)August 8
L.A. Clippers vs. Portland, 1 p.m. (TNT)
Utah vs. Denver, 3:30 p.m. (TNT)
L.A. Lakers vs. Indiana, 6 p.m. (TNT)
Phoenix vs. Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Milwaukee vs. Dallas, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)August 9
Washington vs. Oklahoma City, 12:30 p.m.
Memphis vs. Toronto, 2 p.m.
San Antonio vs. New Orleans, 3 p.m. (ABC)
Orlando vs. Boston, 5 p.m.
Philadelphia vs. Portland, 6:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Houston vs. Sacramento, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn vs. L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. (NBATV)August 10
Oklahoma vs. Phoenix, 2:30 p.m.
Dallas vs. Utah, 3 p.m. (NBATV)
Toronto vs. Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Indiana vs. Miami, 8 p.m.
Denver vs. L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m. (TNT)August 11
Brooklyn vs. Orlando, 1 p.m.
Houston vs. San Antonio, 2 p.m. (NBATV)
Phoenix vs. Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m.
Portland vs. Dallas, 5 p.m.
Boston vs. Memphis, 6:30 p.m. (TNT)
New Orleans vs. Sacramento, 9 p.m. (TNT)
Milwaukee vs. Washington, 9 p.m.August 12
Indiana vs. Houston, 4 p.m. (NBATV)
Toronto vs. Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Miami vs. Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
L.A. Clippers vs. Denver, 9 p.m. (ESPN)August 13
Washington vs. Boston
Portland vs. Brooklyn
Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers
Milwaukee vs. Memphis
New Orleans vs. Orlando
Dallas vs. Phoenix
San Antonio vs. UtahAugust 14
Philadelphia vs. Houston
Miami vs. Indiana
Oklahoma City vs. L.A. Clippers
Denver vs. Toronto
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