NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has done a tremendous job in ensuring the the 2019-20 season sees out its conclusion despite the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic. However, even the commissioner himself admits that he has some regrets about how the season restart has played out.
According to Silver, his biggest disappointment in all this is how they had to cut down the bubble teams to just 22 squads, thereby leaving out the so-called “Delete Eight,” aka the other eight teams that were not asked to join the restart in the Disney World campus.
“I’d say my biggest disappointment is that we couldn’t find a sensible way to bring 30 teams down there,” he said, via Chris Mannix of SI. “We know everything here involves compromises, but I do feel bad there are eight teams that are not part of the experience.”
Much praise has been sent toward the direction of Silver and his tireless team for successfully finding a way to resume the botched NBA campaign. However, concerns have indeed been raised about the other eight teams that were eliminated prior to the restart.
These teams themselves have voiced their qualms about not being able to see out their respective seasons (or at least take part in some kind of group training), and as it turns out, this is an issue that continues to bother Silver in spite of the current success of the bubble.
There was a report about these eight teams possibly joining the Disney bubble once eliminated teams were sent home, but the National Basketball Players Association has pushed back on that idea.
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