The NBA has undergone a league-wide hiatus since March 12. And with a month of suspended animation for professional basketball in North America over with, commissioner Adam Silver is still unsure when the league can resume playing.
In a conference call with media members on early Friday evening, the NBA commissioner iterated the importance of health and safety to players, coaches, officials, and fans, urging that a decision about whether to resume the season or not will come shortly.
“We are not in a position to make any decisions and it's unclear when we will be,” Silver told the media today, via the New York Times' Marc Stein.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver: "We are not in a position to make any decisions and it's unclear when we will be"
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) April 17, 2020
Silver's message of uncertainty—the NBA was first scheduled to resume the regular season approximately one month after the announced hiatus forced by the pandemic-level coronavirus—comes days after United States President Donald Trump announced the NBA commissioner, among other professional sports league leaders, were consulting him on the proper time to “reopen” the economy. “We have to get our sports back,” Trump said, via Bleacher Report. “I'm tired of watching baseball games that are 14 years old.”
Silver's latest transparency on Friday suggests the NBA is nowhere near a place to safely resume a season with a quarter of the way to go. This is in spite of various states reopening several non-essential businesses and public areas. The NBA also has to wrestle with considering an option where players and essential members of the organization can stay in one location removed from COVID-19 to play out the 2019-20 season.
It's looking more and more possible the 2019-20 NBA season will be canceled permanently. Wondering whether the next season has to be postponed now comes into question.
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