Spencer Dinwiddie recently tweeted NBA games may be played again by July 15. Then when he appeared on FOX Sports’ “The Herd” on Friday, the Brooklyn Nets guard expressed that he and other players “definitely think the league is coming back.”
But getting the season rolling again does not come without complications, given the league, just like everyone else in the United States, is expected to handle an unprecedented situation.
While some players are now allowed to train at team facilities with some state governors allowed more businesses to re-open, there are still a few who aren’t as a result of their franchise’s location.
Among the teams facing this issue are the Nets and New York Knicks, both being at the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
But the issue goes further. Because the league has not yet announced its timeline to resume the season, other complications have arisen, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN:
.Executives from Brooklyn, Boston, New York and Toronto were among those on Thursday’s general manager’s call with the league office who expressed concern about how waiting on the league to release a timetable complicates their ramp-ups to return in ways that are unique to those marketplaces.
As a result, some teams are “unable to get players to return to their markets to start preparing for the season’s resumption.” Teams need NBA commissioner Adam Silver to announce league will continue 2019-20.
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