Can the league find a way back to safely playing games in the near future? The answer is far from simple, said Dr. Rand McClain, Chief Medical Officer for Los Angeles-based LCR Health. But after qualifying with the fact that he’s an “eternal optimist,” he broke down the reason he sees the NBA’s return as anything but a pipe dream. “The linchpin in this has always been the testing,” McClain said in an interview on NOLA.com’s Bird Watch podcast. “And that is available, so anyone who says it isn’t feasible logistically or otherwise – it is feasible.”