The N.B.A. Is Coming Back. There Are 113 Pages of New Rules.

The N.B.A. on Tuesday evening detailed its elaborate plan for resuming play this summer time by sending a 113-page handbook to workforce personnel, with a heavy emphasis on well being and security protocols because the league seeks to salvage its season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The season, which was suspended in March, is about to relaunch on July 30 on the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex — a part of Walt Disney World — near Orlando, Fla., the place gamers and workforce personnel might be topic to stringent testing, and stay largely remoted from the remainder of the world via the playoffs.

Still, the N.B.A.’s comeback try is each bold and fraught with potential hazards. Florida, which was among the many first states to loosen its social distancing tips, has re-emerged as a coronavirus scorching spot. On Wednesday, the state reported 2,783 new instances, a file, because the seven-day common continued to rise, based on the Times’ coronavirus monitoring database. Orange County, the home of Walt Disney World, has additionally seen a current improve in instances.

The N.B.A.’s handbook, a duplicate of which was obtained by The Times, is exhaustive, itemizing the six phases of its restart — the primary of which is already underway: voluntary exercises as gamers make their method again to workforce coaching services.

Beginning July 7, groups are scheduled to start arriving on the Disney campus “on a staggered basis,” based on the handbook. Once on website, gamers and workforce personnel should quarantine till they take a look at unfavourable for the coronavirus — twice, not less than 24 hours aside. Players, workers and anybody else contained in the so-called “bubble” will proceed to be examined every day.

After that, groups will start group actions — a coaching camp of types.

The N.B.A.’s elaborate ecosystem at Disney will even function six tiers of personnel, beginning with Tier 1: gamers, coaches, well being and efficiency workers, gear managers and referees. Those individuals may have entry to probably the most restricted areas on campus, together with locker rooms, follow and sport courts, weight rooms and participant lounges.

Tier 2 will embody workforce safety, entrance workplace personnel, workforce communications workers, choose members of the information media, participant friends (as soon as they’re allowed on campus) and even some barbers and manicurists who’re preapproved by the league. Personnel in the remainder of the tiers — everybody starting from housekeepers and catering workers to workforce homeowners to members of the “broadcast compound” — is not going to be permitted to have shut contact with anybody from the primary two tiers, because the league seeks to attenuate threat.

More From the N.B.A.’s Protocols

• Commissioner Adam Silver had floated the concept of proscribing which coaches might sit on the bench, notably referring to coaches who’re older and at larger threat of the signs from the coronavirus. He backed off that assertion quickly after. There seem like no restrictions on who can travel to Orlando, until the participant or coach assessments optimistic within the phases previous the arrival or they dwell with somebody who “recently had Covid-19 or symptoms associated with Covid-19.”

• All gamers and workforce workers should put on face masks always on campus. Well, kind of. If gamers are doing one thing that isn’t inside six ft of another person, they aren’t required. The league lists examples like strolling, swimming, “relaxing outside,” and “watching a movie on an iPad.”

• Players is not going to be allowed to bathe at any of the ESPN arenas or services. That means no postgame showers — till gamers are again at their inns.

• Disney workers members who will not be staying on campus is not going to endure the league’s testing routine. Instead, they are going to be required by Disney to put on face coverings, in addition to to take care of bodily distancing. The league will goal to forestall Disney staff from being in touch with these concerned with the N.B.A. restart, until required.

• The information says, “No one will be stopped from leaving the campus,” however that gamers and workers mustn’t accomplish that until there are “extenuating circumstances.” Among the locations that gamers might be allowed to go: “Auxiliary sites — either on or off Disney property — that are secured by the N.B.A. for approved use by N.B.A. players or staff (e.g., a golf course).”

• If a participant does depart the campus with out permission and tries to re-enter, he might be quarantined for not less than 10 days.