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The NBA wants to play at least 70 regular season games this year, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN.

Windhorst explained that the league plans to do that for financial reasons, otherwise they would have to refund local TV stations.

“What they would love to do is to get to 70 games. And the reason 70 is a key number is because that is what the deliverable is to the regional sports networks. They are promised 70 games.

Now, just because a team like the Lakers, for example, to get to 70 games… they wouldn’t necessarily be able to deliver on that because they’ve had a lot of national games, but getting to 70 would be helpful in retaining revenue because they wouldn’t have to refund some to the local TV,” Windhorst said on ESPN, as transcribed by Real GM.

The NBA has decided to suspend the season for at least 30 days amid the coronavirus outbreak.