For quite a while, Dec. 1 was the proposed starting date for the 2020-21 season but NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently said during the Draft Lottery show on ESPN that Dec. 1 “is feeling a little bit early to me.” And not just the start of the season could be pushed back, basically everything on their previously proposed calendar could be delayed.
The bubble in Orlando has worked extremely well so far but it’s also expensive so the NBA doesn’t really want to try and recreate that to begin the next season... especially with all 30 teams instead of just 22.