Report: NBA moves target restart date up to July 30
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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.