There hasn’t been NBA basketball for over 50 days now and the question remains when, if and how will the league resume its 2019-20 season.
The league has explored many different options at getting the season back in action, including playing remaining games at an isolated site. However, one of the biggest questions regarding that is whether players that would be isolated would have to be separated from their families.
“Well, we did a lot of work on this and we determined in talking to dozens of people that you’d need 1,500 people from hotel maids to scoreboard operators to the players and coaches himself,” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said regarding the possibility of the NBA adopting an isolated “bubble” strategy.
Possible isolated locations that have been thrown around as of late are Las Vegas or Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
“Here’s the issue Sage: The NBA is not interested right now in a bubble where they could not bring their families in. League officials and sources told me that. Without the testing, which you’d need to get everyone in the bubble and without the expansive tests you’d need to get the family in, the NBA is not willing to go there right now. They’re not in a rush and that’s guiding their way forward,” Windsor furthered.
While the NBA has yet to officially cancel the 259 combined games remaining on the schedule, they did recently announce that they were postponing the draft lottery and combine which were both scheduled to happen in May.
The postponement of those two events also likely means that the draft, which was scheduled for June, will also be pushed back.
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