League’s best compete in Disney World for 2020 playoff rights — here’s how to watch an NBA live stream wherever you are in the world today.
Kids have been jealous of NBA players for quite some time — but never more so than right now, as the world’s best are currently ‘confined’ to Disney World as the 2019/20 regular season resumes at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. Each of the 22 teams remaining — eight have already been eliminated — play a further eight ‘seeding games’ against opponents prised from their remaining regular season games. Follow our guide as we explain how to watch an NBA live stream and catch every game online as basketball returns this summer. These ‘seeding games’ will ultimately determine who goes to the playoffs and in what order, with the results of the matchups being applied to the existing NBA standings as they stood when the league halted play back in March. The playoff format looks much the same as it has in previous years, with eight teams each advancing from the Eastern and Western Conference. The usual tie-breakers will be implemented where two teams finish with the same record, but there is one novel addition to the end of this year’s season in light of the Covid-19 shutdown. If the team in 8th place finishes less than four points clear of the team in 9th, a ‘play-in tournament’ will take place to determine who advances to the playoffs. This is essentially a best-of-two mini-series, meaning that the team in 9th needs to win two games on the trot to qualify for postseason. It may or may not come into play, but it’ll make for a nice bit of added drama if it does — at least if you’re a neutral or a fan of whoever’s in 9th. Back to things that haven’t really changed, and a trip to the 2020 NBA finals still seems to be a two-horse race between the Lakers and Clippers in the West, while in the East it’ll take something special from the Raptors, Celtics or Heat to stop the Bucks and ‘Greek Freak’ Giannis Antetokounmpo — last year’s league MVP — from representing the conference this October.
