LeBron James Doesn’t Want To See The Regular Season Disregarded

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has stated his preference for resolving the 2019-2020 NBA regular season.

With hope of salvaging the regular season all but gone, the NBA is considering a number of alternatives. The most highly-mooted of which is an improvised tournament, a 16-team playoff, to at least crown a champion.

Las Vegas is the most likely destination for the tournament, but LeBron James isn’t sure that it’s the right thing.

“One thing you can’t just do is go straight to the playoffs,” said LeBron James.

“Because it discredits the 60-plus games that guys had fighting for that position.

“… I think maybe one and a half, two weeks of a little mini training camp, and then maybe five to 10 games to get ready for the playoffs. If we’re talking about just finishing the regular season, then you don’t need that much. You could do a week of training camp and then get back into it.”

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The NBA suspended it’s season after the March 11th round of games. At that point, only four teams had sealed a spot in the playoffs. They were the Milwaukee Bucks (53-12), Los Angeles Lakers (49-14), Toronto Raptors (46-18) and the Boston Celtics (43-21).

Each of those teams will have had their sights on the championship since the start of the season. Via the New York Post, the league is determined that at least one of them will win the title.

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“They’re very determined to have a champion,” an anonymous NBA source told Marc Berman.

Berman wrote that league executives “still cling to hope of arranging a one-site, fan-less, 16-team playoff” preceded by five-to-seven games wrapping up the regular season.

A different anonymous league official told Berman that “nothing is off the table.”