NBA to Restart Season in July at Disney World

If anything, we should thank Mickey Mouse and his friends for saving basketball amid the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 

After weeks of unconfirmed reports as to how the National Basketball Association (NBA) is planning to resume NBA action, or if it's even planning on returning to action, it's official. The NBA will be restarting the 2019-2020 season at Disney World in Florida this July.

In a statement released to the press, NBA Cheif Communications Officer Mike Bass said that the league, in conjunction with the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is currently engaged in exploratory conversations with The Walt Disney Company about a resumption of the 2019-2020 season in late July inside Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida that will serve as a single site for NBA games, practices and housing. The league's statement also reiterated that it's the league's priority to ensure the health and safety of everyone involved and that,  the NBA is working hand-in-hand with the health experts as well as the government officials to make sure that every medial protocol and protection has been in place before the NBA resumes.

This confirmation that the NBA will resume in July answered the question of when the league will resume and more importantly, it confirmed that there will be a single site for all games rather than what has been reported that the NBA is reported to be considering two venues with the other one being Manny Pacquiao's former playground in Las Vegas. While the league is still in the process of conducting a survey to general managers of teams as to whether or not all teams will play a certain number of games before the playoffs, jumping straight into a tournament format that would no longer include the teams that are sitting at the bottom of their respective conferences. how the season will return is all up to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the advice that he would be getting from the public health experts.

While there are more questions that needed to be answered, we are now certain about one thing: the NBA will return this season and we have Mickey Mouse to thank for.  

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