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The Lead

The NBA Tiptoes Toward Tipoff

The Lead

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3.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the NBA took a tiny step toward returning to play, as some teams opened the doors to their practice facilities and began allowing individual player workouts. Today, the Athletic’s Sam Amick joins us to talk about how the NBA is slowly but surely trying to resume the season, where and how a completion of the 2019-2020 season might work, and what's at stake for the league as it navigates through these uncharted waters.

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1:09.1

Last week, the NBA took a tiny first step towards returning to play.

1:15.5

Mar of the day that teams in areas who stay at home, guidelines have been lifted,

1:19.0

can open doors to their practice facilities.

1:21.9

Today, the Athletic Sam Amic joins us to talk about how the NBA is easing its way into

1:27.2

resuming the season. What exactly that might look like, and why so much is at stake for the league

1:33.2

as it wrestles with opening back up?

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