NBA: The Latest on a Restart

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The NBA, team general mangers and the league's players seem close to agreement on a plan to restart the 2019-20 season. GMs have met virtually and filled out a survey on different options and formats for basketball's comeback. Players have been in lengthy calls with each other and their union leader, who says a vote won't be necessary. NBA insider Ramona Shelburne brings us the latest on the NBA's potential comeback scenario, how an Orlando-based plan came together, and which teams could benefit most from this version of a restart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But I'm going to tell you, the more people that I talk to, the more it sounds like this is not going to be a 30 team operation.
0:07.2	They are not going to bring everybody back.
0:08.9	It's going to be something less than that.
0:10.9	What it's going to be?
0:12.4	Check back next hour.
0:13.7	Check back the hour after that.
0:14.9	That's what's being discussed.
0:20.1	Those 30 teams in question, they make up the National Basketball Association.
0:25.4	It's unclear how many of them will come back to finish the stalled season.
0:29.7	But what is clear is that it seems more likely than ever that the NBA will indeed come back.
0:35.9	As the players in league move in lockstep towards a plan, we look inside the private negotiations
0:42.0	shaping that return and ask which teams and players might come out on top.
0:48.5	I mean it comes. It's Wednesday, May 27th.
0:51.7	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon.
0:59.6	Thank you. May 27th. This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon. So Ramona, you talk with a lot of folks around the league on both sides. What is the
1:04.3	optimism level right now? I think the optimism level is as high as I have heard it.
1:10.5	We're at that stage where everybody
1:12.2	can see the path forward. It's just kind of about the details now. Ramona Shelburne is a senior
1:18.7	NBA writer for ESPN. Everyone involved wants there to be a deal. Everybody involved wants this
1:25.5	to happen. But I think everybody involved knows that you're
1:29.4	going to have a best case scenario, you're going to have a plan, and then you're going to have to
1:33.1	adjust to whatever comes up as you try to execute that plan. Because the one thing I think we've all
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