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NBA Season Restart

For the season restart, the 22 teams returning would be the Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards from the Eastern Conference and the Los Angeles Lakers, LA Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, Portland Trail Blazers, New Orleans Pelicans, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns from the Western Conference.  

Each returning Team would play eight seeding games, as selected from its remaining regular-season matchups. At the conclusion of the seeding games, the seven teams in each conference with the best-combined records across regular-season games and seeding games would qualify for the playoffs.

If the Team with the eighth-best combined record in its conference is more than four games ahead of the Team with the ninth-best combined record in the same conference, then the Team with the eighth-best record would earn the eighth playoff seed.  

If the Team with the eighth-best combined record in its conference (Team A) is four games or fewer ahead of the Team with the ninth-best combined record in the same conference (Team B), then Teams A and B would compete in a play-in tournament to determine the eighth playoff seed. To earn the eighth playoff seed, Team A would need to defeat Team B once, and Team B would need to defeat Team A two games in a row.  

The 2019-20 season would conclude with a traditional playoff format with best-of-seven series in the first round, conference semi-finals, conference finals, and the NBA Finals.

Watch the games on e.tv with a rebroadcast on Openview channel 120. Season restart coming soon.