The NBA has told its players association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league's board of governors today.
The 22 teams would each play eight games, beginning on July 31, at ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando to determine playoff seeding.
In addition to the 16 teams currently in playoff position, five Western Conference teams and one Eastern Conference team - the Wizards - will make up the 22-team field. All of those teams are within six games of a playoff spot.
At the conclusion of the eight games, if the ninth-place team in a conference is within four games of the eighth-place team, a two-game play-in series would take place, in which the ninth-place team would have to win twice to overtake the eighth-place team.
The playoffs would start in August, with the NBA Finals stretching into October.
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As for Major League Baseball, the standoff between the owners and playoffs continues as the league formally rejected the union's proposal for a 114-game regular season that would run through October.
MLB had suggested an 82-game regular season in its most recent proposal to the players, but Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem said in a letter to the union that plan is no longer feasible due to the players' demands for a prorated portion of their salaries and the passing of a June 1 deadline to restart spring training with the goal of beginning the season in early July.
MLB is reportedly resistant to playing regular-season games past September due to concerns that a spike in coronavirus cases could lead to a disruption of the postseason.