The NBA season will continue to be on ice as the world continues to cope with the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 and the effects that it continue to has on the world.
While the league first said that they will suspend things for up to 30 days and then reassess from there, there is a new development that will most likely keep things in suspension until for even longer.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the CDC–Center for Disease Control–is recommending that there be no events of 50-plus people for the next two months. He also added that NBA owners are expecting a best-case scenario to be a resume to play in mid-to-late June which would then mean no fans in the arena at games.
CDC recommendation of no events of 50-plus people for next two months comes as a number of NBA owners and executives increasingly believe a best case scenario is a mid-to-late June return to play — with no fans. League's scouting for possible arena dates all the way thru August.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 15, 2020
With the season expected to be pushed back so long, there will now have a big effect on the 2020-21 season. Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Koonin had advocated for a season that begins in December in the past so that the NBA would not have to compete with the NFL in terms of revenue and attention. Something like this just may give Koonin his chance to implement his idea.
“Relevance equals revenue,” Koonin said. “We’ve got to create the most relevance, and the revenue will fix itself.”
For the Philadelphia 76ers, this now means that they must keep themselves quarantined and continue to make sure they are all healthy for the future.
This is an unfortunate event, but one that must happen if we are to beat this virus. The sooner we can attack it, the sooner we’ll be able to beat it and move on with our lives. [lawrence-related id=27656,27646,27638]