Although the 2019-20 NBA season was supposed to mark the start of a new era of Nets basketball, 2020-21 is expected to be the true start of what could be a special run in Brooklyn.
Kyrie Irving will finally have his friend Kevin Durant playing alongside him after Brooklyn’s top player missed all of 2019-20 while rehabbing his surgically repaired right Achilles.
The basketball world will also see Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash get his first crack at being an NBA head coach.
While the start of the 2020-21 season was unquestionably set to be pushed back due to the league’s pause of 2019-20, next season was still expected to begin in 2020.
But it appears that may no longer be the case.
During an appearance on CNN, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed his “best guess” is that the start of next season will be January at the earliest, per Marc Stein of The New York Times.
The NBA’s goal for 2020-21, Silver said, remains playing a “standard season” … meaning 82 games plus playoffs
Silver, though, acknowledged to Costas that it will most likely be a 2021 season with no games played in 2020 after completion of the NBA Bubble schedule in October
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) September 22, 2020
Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix is reporting a potential January start date has been “kicked around”: January 18th, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.