The return of the NBA becomes clearer: the league is in discussions with the Walt Disney group to invest its Orlando complex where it would like to resume at the end of July its season suspended because of the coronavirus, confirmed a spokesperson to ESPN.
“The NBA, in collaboration with the players’ union (NBPA) has started discussions with The Walt Disney Company in order to explore the possibilities of restarting the 2019-2020 fiscal year at the end of July at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex which it owns. in Florida, said Mike Bass.
The latter said the site, which is located inside Disney World, would serve as a “single campus for matches, training and accommodation.”
Within this 220 hectare complex, there are three rooms for competing in meetings and enough hotel rooms to accommodate the various delegations, while limiting, private property requires, exhibitions with the outside world.
If the NBA commissioner Adam Silver must communicate on the fate of the season by the beginning of June, this announcement confirms the trend evoked in his last days by the site The Athletic in particular, which reported that Orlando had become the preferred option by the proceeding at the expense of Las Vegas.
If the NBA, which suspended its season on March 11 and the positive test at Covid-19 of the French Rudy Gobert (Utah), has set its sights on Disney World and plans a return to the game at the end of July, many other parameters remain to define.
At the moment no one knows in what form the championship will resume, while there is still about a month to go in the regular season.
As such, Milwaukee co-owner Marc Lasry said Friday that a board of directors for the body, with franchise owners, would be held next Friday.
According to ESPN, players should observe a fortnight of two weeks, then train individually for one to two weeks at their team’s facilities, before going to group training camp for two to three weeks.
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