2019–20 NBA season
The 2019–20 NBA season was the 74th season of the National Basketball Association. The regular season began on October 22, 2019, and originally was supposed to end on April 15, 2020. The season was suspended on March 11 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 16, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and was won by Team LeBron, 157–155. The playoffs began on August 17 and ended with the NBA Finals, which began on September 30 and ended on October 11. This was the longest season in NBA history.
About 2019–20 NBA season in brief
The 2019–20 NBA season was the 74th season of the National Basketball Association. The regular season began on October 22, 2019, and originally was supposed to end on April 15, 2020. However, the season was suspended on March 11 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 16, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and was won by Team LeBron, 157–155. The playoffs began on August 17 and ended with the NBA Finals, which began on September 30 and ended on October 11. This was the longest season in NBA history. Free agency negotiations began on June 30, 2019,. Players officially signed after the July moratorium on July 6 at 12 p.m. m. ET. The NBA Bubble, the isolation zone specifically created for NBA operations, was opened in Orlando on June 26. The reformatted regular season, with 8 more games scheduled for 22 qualified teams going to the NBA Bubble in Orlando, was released onJune 26. On May 23, it was announced that the NBA were in negotiations with Walt Disney World about the possibility to finish the season at Disney World’s ESPN Sports Complex in Orlando. On March 19, two players for the Los Angeles Lakers, including Kevin Durant, tested positive for the virus, and the first four Jazz players, including Rudy Gobert, also tested positive.
All players recovered and were cleared by local health officials by the end of the month. The game between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder was abruptly postponed shortly before tipoff after it was discovered that Gobert tested positive to the virus. That same evening, a referee for the game, Courtney Kirkland, had worked a Utah Jazz game just two days prior. Kirkland later tested negative for CO VID-19. The NBA then suspended the remainder of the 2019-20 season ‘until further notice’ following the completion of games already underway. On August 26, the NBA suspended the season for a second time by a wildcat strike during the playoffs. Play resumed three days later on August 29. The Finals ended on August 11, 2020, 355 days after the regular-season opening day, and 377 days after the first pre-season games on September30, 2019. The Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs would play at Mexico City Arena in Mexico City, marking the first time that four NBA teams would play in one regular season.
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