NEW YORK, NY (WTVB) – The NBA revealed the schedule for the resumption of the 2019-20 season at the Disney World complex near Orlando, Florida with the first game of a doubleheader on July 30 featuring the Pelicans facing the Jazz to be followed by a Lakers-Clippers matchup.
The 22 teams going to Disney will play their “seeding” games in a 16-day span ending August 14. The NBA will be using three arenas at Disney, and other than the two-game slate on the opening night there will be somewhere between four and seven games played each day.
Meanwhile, the NBA and its players association announced that 16 of 302 players tested positive for the coronavirus during the first wave of mandatory exams conducted in advance of the league’s planned restart. The league and the union also announced they have finalized their agreement to continue the suspended season next month at the Disney World campus near Orlando.
And the Detroit Pistons signed center Justin Patton on Friday, hoping the 2017 first-round pick can stay healthy to help the franchise’s turnaround. Patton had surgery for a broken foot in 2018 for the second straight year. The 6-foot-11 player was selected No. 16 overall three years ago by Chicago, who traded him to Minnesota as part of the Jimmy Butler trade. Patton averaged less than two points a game, appearing in nine games over three seasons for the Timberwolves, Philadelphia and Oklahoma City.
