The NBA board of governors voted Thursday to approve a 22-team format to restart the 2019-20 season at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the league announced.
The vote was 29-1, with the Portland Trail Blazers voting against the proposal according to ESPN sources.
Under the plan, 13 Western Conference teams and nine Eastern Conference teams will play eight regular-season games, a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed and playoffs at the Walt Disney World Resort, sources said. To see the details of how the 22 team season will work look below:
The top 16 teams in the Eastern and Western conferences will be joined by teams currently within six games of eighth place in the two conferences — New Orleans, Portland, San Antonio, Sacramento, Phoenix and Washington, sources said.
The play-in tournament will include the No. 8 and No. 9 teams — if the ninth seed finishes the regular season within four games of the eighth. In that case, the No. 9 seed would need to beat No. 8 seed twice to earn the playoff berth, while the No. 8 would need one win from the two potential games.
The league is targeting a start date of July 31, where 22 of the 30 NBA teams are expected to participate in Orlando.