NBA Restart Notes: BoG Vote, Player Salaries, More

The NBA’s Board of Governors are expected to approve Adam Silver‘s return-to-play plan today, despite the fact that some of the teams left out of the 22-team return disagree with the league’s solution, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Those teams still intend to vote in favor of the plan, Wojnarowski notes.

While it’s not clear whether team owners will unanimously approve the 22-team proposal, only three-quarters support is required (ie. 23 out of 30 votes), and it’s “expected to clear that hurdle with ease,” Wojnarowski writes.

Here’s more on the NBA’s restart:

• John Hollinger of The Athletic poses a few questions related to the NBA’s 22-team plan, noting that we still haven’t heard many specifics on how the league plans to test for and handle COVID-19. As Hollinger points out, the issue of whether every team – including the bottom eight – will be permitted to make roster moves before the offseason is also an important one, since some clubs may want to sign players to multiyear deals.
• With only 22 of 30 teams set to resume play, there will be a significant gap in how many regular season games teams like the Timberwolves (64) and Mavericks (75) end up playing. Dan Feldman of NBC Sports wonders how the NBA and NBPA will determine what portion of their 2019/20 salaries players on those teams have to forfeit — on one hand, players from the bottom eight teams didn’t ask not to play this summer, but they won’t be assuming any of the risk the players going to Orlando will.
• To further complicate matters, Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today tweets that he has heard the eight pre-playoff games this summer will be referred to as “seeding games” rather than regular season games.