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NBA sets 17-player rosters for return, US report says
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The National Basketball Association plans to allow as many as 17 players per team when the season restarts at the end of next month, US media reported at the weekend.
The total will include 15 players with standard contracts and two others per team that are under two-way deals. The NBA has been shut down since March 11 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Twenty-two of the NBA’s 30 teams are scheduled to resume the season at the end of next month at the Disney Resort sports complex in Orlando, Florida. The date of the restart is July 31, but ESPN reported that the latest plan was to move it up to July 30. Under the revised schedule 14 of the teams will be eliminated within 53 days of arriving in Florida. Only four teams will remain after 67 days, ESPN said. The league expects the NBA Finals to begin by September 30. Once the playoffs start, teams can replace any player who tests positive for the coronavirus with a substitute player. The new player would be subject to a minimum seven-day quarantine period. The league is planning to begin training camps July 9-11. The players will quarantine before beginning formal training camps.
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