The 2019-20 NBA season went on hiatus on March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

On June 4, the NBA's Board of Governors approved a competitive format to restart the 2019-20 season with 22 teams returning to play and a tentative start date of July 31. The Board’s approval is the first formal step among many required to resume the season and the NBA is working to finalize a comprehensive season restart plan with the National Basketball Players Association.

In anticipation of the return of the NBA, here are some common questions and answers about the restart of the 2019-20 season?

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A total of 22 teams would return to play this season.

The returning teams are the 16 teams in current playoff positions and the six teams that are currently six games or fewer behind the eighth seed in their respective conferences.

The eight remaining games each returning team would play before the playoffs begin. The games would be selected from a team's remaining regular-season matchups.

It varies by team, but most of the 22 teams would play 72 or 73 games after the eight "seeding games" are added to their regular-season game total.

The seven teams in each conference with the best records (regular-season games + seeding games) would have clinched a playoff spot.

But if the team with the eighth-best record in its conference is four games or fewer ahead of the team with the ninth-best record in the same conference, then we'll have a battle for the final spot between those two teams.

This is assuming games begin on July 31 as tentatively scheduled

The 16 playoff teams would draft in inverse order of their combined records across regular-season games and seeding games

This is assuming games begin on July 31 as tentatively scheduled

This is also assuming games begin on July 31 as tentatively scheduled