The New Orleans Pelicans will resume the 2019-20 NBA season on Thursday, July 30 against the Utah Jazz at 5:30 p.m. CT on TNT. The Pelicans, one of 22 teams participating in the NBA season restart, will play eight seeding games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.
In the return to play format, all 22 teams will compete in eight “seeding games.” At the end of the seeding games, a play-in tournament will occur between the teams in eighth and ninth place in their respective conference should they be separated by four games or less, with the eighth place team in a double-elimination position and the team in ninth place in a single-elimination position.