Owners and executives around the NBA have grown confident the 2019-20 season will be able to resume at some point. Sam Amick of The Athletic recently noted that “optimism abounds in the ownership, player, agent and league office ranks.”
Amick admitted to not polling everyone in the NBA to gauge this but rather sensed it in conversations with some of the most prominent people among each group. All involved are determined to get some resolution to a season that came to a halt on March 11, a campaign that was three-quarters of the way through.
Basketball people see the conclusion of this season as a less-ambitious gambit than baseball, which still has a full season to play.
“One team owner, for example, discussed a scenario in which players were given approximately a month to get back in shape (including their team training camp) starting in early June, the regular season began in July and the Finals were eventually played in … late October,” wrote Amick. “Another owner agreed wholeheartedly that league-wide confidence was growing that this season would be saved, as did a few other folks who have a quality read of the room.”
The NBA is simply hellbent in salvaging this season one way or another. Be it via crunching the remainder of the regular season schedule and having a shorter postseason or getting to the playoffs straight away.
Regardless of the scenario, the league will have to face a series of ramifications with the NBA Draft, free agency, and the time allotted before the start of the 2020-21 season.
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