An NBA season schedule plan is tentatively approved to avoid overlap with the Olympics, after doubt earlier this fall, but what’s left to decide is which of the league’s superstars will be in Tokyo.
A month ago, it appeared the NBA season would clash with the Games and definitely keep at least some of the world’s best male basketball players from representing their nations.
On Sept. 22, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said his best guess was the season starting in January with a standard 82-game schedule and playoffs. In that scenario, the Olympics would have started while the NBA playoffs were happening.