Player says NBA to resume games July 15

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie continues to embrace his newsmaking skills on social media, sharing that the NBA season will resume in July at a “bubble location.”

Dinwiddie’s update comes with the qualifier that he was not provided an official update from the Nets or the NBA. However, his intel appears to match multiple reports indicating the NBA is pointed toward playing games this summer, and doing so within a “campus environment,” which is the preference of commissioner Adam Silver.

Dinwiddie was replying to a post from popular shoe designer John Geiger’s post that the NBA would be back June 21. Dinwiddie posted to Twitter: “That’s just practice. I heard those last 5 games at bubble site start July 15th.”

ESPN reported Silver is expected to release rules and guidelines for the NBA to return on June 1.

Keith Smith of Yahoo Sports and Marc Stein of the New York Times said Thursday they’ve heard the same timeline Dinwiddie outlined. That would put the NBA Finals in the Labour Day range, per Smith.