“The Board of Player Representatives of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) has tentatively approved a start date of December 22, 2020 for the 2020-2021 NBA season and a 72-game schedule. Additional details remain to be negotiated and the NBPA is confident that the parties will reach agreement on these remaining issues relevant to the upcoming season.”
Written content by Kurt Helin via NBC Sports
As expected, the NBA players are officially on board with a 72-game NBA next season that will start on Dec. 22 because it makes everyone more money (an additional $500 million this season and $1 billion overall, by the owners’ estimates).
The 30 player representatives — one from each team — voted Thursday night to tentatively approve a deal with the NBA owners that had been negotiated over the past couple of weeks, a story broken by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and confirmed by the NBPA itself.
“The Board of Player Representatives of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) has tentatively approved a start date of December 22, 2020 for the 2020-2021 NBA season and a 72-game schedule. Additional details remain to be negotiated and the NBPA is confident that the parties will reach agreement on these remaining issues relevant to the upcoming season.”
This all but makes the Dec. 22 season start and this plan official. Other details to be finalized, such as the salary cap and luxury tax for next season, are not insignificant, but the sides seem on a path to work it out.
Here is what this means for the start of next season: Read more here from NBC Sports
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