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The NBA could be playing deep into the summer — assuming its suspended season eventually starts back up.

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Thursday morning he expects the NBA season to only be postponed, not cancelled, in the wake of the league suspending play Wednesday night after Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. His teammate, Donovan Mitchell, also tested positive. That could mean games being played as late as August.

“Hopefully this virus runs its course over the next 60 days or so and then at that point, we can start making decisions about: Does the NBA play games, what our schedule looks like, how we progress from there?” Cuban said on ESPN’s “Get Up.”

“Hopefully small businesses and our partners and just the community itself is strong enough and hasn’t been hit hard enough that things can continue at least somewhat normally. If not, we’ll look at ways to be supportive in the community. When you have something that’s so unique, you have to really just be agile and pay attention because we’ve never been here before.”

Normally, the NBA Finals finish up in June. Teams currently have anywhere from 15-19 regular-season games left to play to finish out the regular 82-game schedule.

But pushing back the playoffs could force scheduling problems with arenas in different cities, with concerts and other events already scheduled for after the NBA was supposed to be done playing. The 2020 Olympics — including basketball — are also scheduled for late July to early August.

“The only reason we haven’t played games after June 12 in the past is because our TV partners … the households using television in the summer drop significantly,” Cuban said. “Well, the TV landscape has changed significantly over the last three years, four years. So those numbers and those equations have all changed significantly. So depending on how it plays out … every business going through this.

“You’ll talk to your customers and your partners and we’ll see where their heads [are] at. But because there’s not a lot of competition — there’s only regular-season baseball — I don’t think necessarily till August, but I could easily see us playing the last seven to 10 games of the regular season to get everybody back on course and then going right into the playoffs and going into July, if not August.”