Reports: NBA playoffs will resume, though Thursday's games are postponed; Jazz-Nuggets Game 6 slated for Sunday - Salt Lake Tribune

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In a Thursday morning meeting among members of the National Basketball Players Association, it was decided that the 2020 NBA playoffs will continue, according to multiple reports.

Thursday’s three scheduled games — including Game 6 between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets — will be postponed, the NBA announced in an afternoon statement.

All three of Wednesday’s games were subsequently postponed.

In a players’ meeting later that night, players from the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers reportedly voted to discontinue all remaining games and leave the NBA bubble in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. All other teams present voted to continue playing, and the meeting adjourned with no firm resolution on how to proceed.

It appears that resolution was found Thursday morning.

Yahoo’s Chris Haynes reported that after Wednesday night’s meeting was fraught with emotions running high already due to Blake’s shooting, and tensions rising further over a lack of a unified plan among the players, they decided to reconvene Thursday morning, hoping that a night of sleep would lead to rational discussion.

Haynes said that appeared to be the case, as an approximately hourlong meeting at Disney’s Corona Springs Resort featured several prominent players apparently changing their minds about playing, with LeBron James — one of Wednesday’s most vocal supporters for cancellation — suggesting “it was in the best interest of the players to finish what they started.”

The NBA’s statement noted a video conference call was scheduled for “later in the afternoon between a group of NBA players and team governors representing the 13 teams in Orlando, along with representatives from the National Basketball Players Association and the league office and NBA Labor Relations Committee Chairman Michael Jordan to discuss next steps.”

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ESPN’s Tim MacMahon reported that meeting will feature two player representatives per team, and that the “focus of this meeting will be formulating action plans to address racial injustice issues as well as ironing out details of restarting playoffs.”

Meanwhile, the league’s statement said it is “hopeful to resume games either Friday or Saturday.” Several reports have emerged that the players and the league are targeting a Saturday restart, and that every game postponed before then will effectively be pushed back three days. That would put Game 6 of Jazz vs. Nuggets on Sunday.

This report will be updated.

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