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The NBA is back, but one of its stars isn’t so sure he will be suiting up.

The league at the moment is eyeing a July 30 return a day earlier than the original proposed date, and Melo’s Portland Trail Blazers are one of the 22 teams selected to be a part of that process.

The plan is for those teams to battle it out in 8-game regular-season games to set the stage for a 16-team playoff.

“If we come back and they’re just like, ‘We’re adding a few games to finish the regular season,’ and they’re throwing us out there for meaningless games and we don’t have a true opportunity to get into the playoffs, I’m going to be with my team because I’m a part of the team.

Teams are expected to report to Orlando by the middle of July for training camp.