The Warriors will have to wait to make the No. 2 pick in the upcoming NBA draft, as the league plans to delay the current Oct. 16 date by as much as a month.

Sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the NBA informed teams Wednesday that the draft will be pushed back, potentially to Nov. 18, though negotiations between the league and Players’ Association are ongoing. A decision could be made as soon as this week.

Pushing the date of the draft back from Oct. 16 allows the league more time to hold a virtual combine, and for teams to gather crucial information on this draft class. It also allows the NBA to formulate a potential start date for next season — which Commissioner Adam Silver said won’t be Dec. 1 as initially intended after the league went on hiatus — and for the NBA and NBAPA to negotiate a new salary cap for 2020-21.

Delaying the draft is also expected to postpone the start of free agency, which had been planned to begin Oct. 19.

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Though the Warriors would have had seven months between when the league halted play on March 11 to the mid-October draft to scout prospects, many teams participating in the resumed season in Florida would have had a drastically smaller widow between the end of their season and the start of the offseason. The last possible date for the NBA playoffs is Oct. 12.

After finishing with a league-worst 15-50 record last season, the Warriors earned the No. 2 pick in August’s draft lottery. The Minnesota Timberwolves will select first.

Later this month, the Warriors and the other seven teams not invited to the NBA restart at Disney World will hold voluntary workouts at local facilities. Most Warriors players including Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are expected to participate. Group workouts are currently slated to begin Sept. 21.