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The NBA’s board of governors will reportedly vote tomorrow on a 22-team return to play format. A conference call with the league’s owners is scheduled for 11:30 central time tomorrow. ESPN reports all of the teams will play in Orlando, including the Pelicans, and play eight regular-season games to determine seeding for a 16-team playoff. The Pels are 3.5 games back of Memphis, but according to the Athletic, if the gap between the eighth and ninth seed is four games or fewer those teams would face off in a double-elimination, play-in tournament. The season would resume on July 31st and if there’s a game seven of the NBA Finals it will be on October 12th.

The LHSAA’s executive committee holds a virtual meeting today and they’ll discuss the reports that as many as 14 schools have held summer workouts prior to a June eighth start date.

The NFL has told its teams they must hold training camp this year at their home facilities because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a third of the teams hold their training camp in a location away from their home facilities. ESPN’s Adam Schefter also reports joint practices between two teams will be banned, once training camp begins.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said his players and former players are hurting and they’ve let him know they’re hurting over George Floyd’s death. Orgeron says he totally supports them and he will not tolerate racism. The S-I report says Coach O let LSU Police Lt. Reggie Berry speak at the team’s first meeting yesterday since the coronavirus outbreak. Berry’s father, Hassell Berry Junior, was LSU’s first black police officer in 1968.

Backup U-L Lafayette quarterback Brayden Hawkins and reserve linebacker Jordan Cordova have reportedly entered the NCAA transfer portal.