The NBA continues to make plans for league play to resume with 22 teams at Disney World in Orlando this summer. But part of the process is preparing for what might go wrong. One issue is if a team finds itself in need of additional players, as replacements due to injury, sickness, or simply for additional roster depth. Via the Deseret News:
According to reports by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks, the league is planning on having a one-week ‘transaction window’ for all 30 NBA teams beginning on June 22, ahead of the tentative July 31 resumption of games, in which teams can fill open roster spots, sign or waive players, and convert two-way deals to standard NBA contracts…
According to Wojnarowski, teams are pushing back on the league’s preference to limit rosters to 15 players and to leave two-way players out of the bubble unless they are converted to a standard NBA contract before the team arrives in Orlando.
Teams would prefer to have two-way players on hand while in Florida so that if a player suffers an injury or becomes infected with the coronavirus after the ‘transaction window’, a two-way player could be made a substitute without having to go through quarantine before joining the team.
For now, the plan is for action to resume on July 31. We can’t wait.
