The NBA hopes to be on track for a mid-July relaunch of the season

Reports from both Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania indicate the NBA and its teams are optimistic the season could return by mid-July.

It’s been a long time since the NBA has had any legitimate good news to share in this post-COVID world. In fact, it’s safe to say there really hasn’t been any good news that didn’t bring with it equal or greater doses of bad news. That’s just the world we live in today.

However, that paradigm was smashed (or at least lightly dented) on Wednesday afternoon with the dueling news breakers, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania, dropping the information that the NBA is hoping for a mid-July relaunch to its suspended season.

For starters, The Athletic tweeted that Walt Disney World in Orlando was likely to win its bid to host the NBA, with a reasonably close timetable:

For more information on how Disney could play host to the NBA as a bubble city, check out this article from Keith Smith which introduced the idea to the general public. Disney has the size and facilities to host the NBA and would be a near-perfect fit as a bubble environment.

A tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski touched on another crucial issue facing the NBA: How and when do they re-integrate out-of-market players who have traveled home during this pandemic? Considering the quarantine requirements all over the world that are in play, a firm and reliable policy is necessary and the NBA is working on codifying just such a thing.

We recently were told that the NBA was looking to have a final decision in the next two-to-four weeks about the future of its season, and it appears that things are currently rosier than they’ve been since things were brought to a halt.

With locations nearing a point of being selected, policies being drafted as we speak and players being on board with doing what it takes to get back into action in a safe and healthy fashion, we may not be waiting that much longer for real games (or at least concrete and tangible progress towards those games) after all.