The NBA is coming back in December.
Correction: The NBA wants to come back in December.
The league informed the Board of Governors on Friday that it is targeting a late December, pre-Christmas return, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to Sports Illustrated. The NBA’s preference is a 72-game schedule that would end the season by early July, before the scheduled start of the Summer Olympics. On this schedule, training camps would open in early December, less than two months after the Lakers finished off Miami in the NBA Finals.