Does the NBA need a ‘pause’ with recent positives, postponements?

With increasing positive cases, quarantined players, barely-adequate rosters and postponements, a call to pause the season grows.

As several teams around the NBA find themselves at or near the minimum allowed players to play games, on Sunday one dipped below that threshold and caused what is already the second game of the 2020-21 season to be postponed.

That team was of course the Miami Heat, which had an inconclusive test return swiftly transform their roster from one with a typical range of injured players to one with less than that necessary eight-player threshold in just hours. This in turn prompted renewed questions on whether the league’s pandemic plans were truly up to the monumental task they face.