The NBA board of governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Fla., another major step toward getting teams back onto the court and playing games again.
The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine playoff seeding plus the possible utilization of a play-in tournament for the final spot in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference postseason fields, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league had not yet revealed the vote result publicly.