Reports: NBA teams expected to approve 22-team return plan on Thursday

It appears the NBA is back.Multiple reports Wednesday morning indicated that on Thursday’s conference call with the league’s Board of Governors, commissioner Adam Silver will present a plan that consists of 22 teams returning (13 Western Conference, nine Eastern Conference) to play eight regular-season games apiece, a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed in each conference, to be followed by a traditional 16-team, four-round playoff.A source told The Associated Press that