LeBron James and the LA Lakers back in the swing as the NBA returns

Twenty-two of the NBA’s 30 teams have gone into a bio-secure bubble at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

The teams will play eight regular-season seeding games before the standard 16-team play-offs will get underway.

The NBA resumed from its coronavirus suspension with two games on Thursday, with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz scoring two-point wins.

With both games featuring Western Conference teams, the first-placed Lakers beat their second-placed local rivals the LA Clippers by 103-101, while the fourth-placed Jazz beat the 11th-placed New Orleans Pelicans 106-104.