Report: NBA moves target restart date up to July 30

TORONTO, CANADA - APRIL 13: A generic photograph of the hoop prior to Game One of Round One of the 2019 NBA Playoffs on April 13, 2019 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE
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The NBA is now targeting July 30 for a return to action, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The tentative restart date to continue the 2019-20 season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando is one day earlier than the league's previously announced July 31 target.

Twenty-two of the league's teams will continue to play out the 2019-20 season: the 16 teams that occupied playoff seeds at the time the league went on hiatus, plus six teams that were within six games of a postseason berth.

The NBA last held a game on March 11, the day Utah Jazz All-Star Rudy Gobert became the first of a number of active players to test positive for COVID-19.

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