NEW YORK -- Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry says he thinks the NBA season could resume in six to eight weeks with clubs likely gathering in Orlando and Las Vegas to play games.
Lasry told CNBC television on Thursday that the league was moving closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic shutdown that began after Utah's Rudy Gobert tested positive March 11 for COVID-19.
"With players coming back, I think right now the momentum seems to be shifting and I think we'll have something -- hopefully within the next six to eight weeks we should be playing." Lasry's timetable for an early July restart to games had some support in a tweet from Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie in response to a tweet that the NBA would "return" on June 15.
The NBA would set up courts for games to be staged without spectators and played before television cameras.The NBA would use one or two sites for the return, Lasry said.
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