We are on the precipice of restarting the 2019-20 NBA season, a monumental undertaking at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando’s Walt Disney World during a global pandemic. History will be made inside the league’s so-called “bubble,” which houses 22 teams at three hotels within 15 minutes of the three arenas where the eight remaining regular-season seeding games and the playoffs will be held.
It is easy to forget where the league left off in March, considering the equivalent of an entire offseason will have passed between games. In order to get you up to speed before Thursday’s re-opening slate, we reviewed and previewed every team scheduled to participate, complete with analysis of which players have been ruled out of the restart, each roster’s X-factor, best-case scenarios and playoff predictions.