Executive director of the National Basketball Players Association Michele Roberts admitted that she wasn't confident that the 2019-20 season could return amid the coronavirus pandemic which has paralyzed cities all over the world. Now that the NBA's tentative date has been slated, Roberts carries a different opinion.

Roberts shared how scared she was by the coronavirus — a completely understandable sentiment given how the disease has affected all countries, even the developed ones. But as the NBA tried to navigate and find a way to resume the season, Roberts believes that they have exhausted all the possible measures to ensure the health and well-being of its players and staff.

“My confidence, it didn’t exist at the beginning of this virus because I was so frightened by it,” Michele Roberts, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, told The Associated Press as reported by The New York Times. “Now, having lived and breathed and suffered through the hours and hours of understanding the virus, and listening to our experts, and comparing different alternative protocols, I can’t even think of anything else we could do short of hermetically seal the players that would keep them safe.”

The league recently released a set of strict guidelines that are centered on protecting the health of players, staff, and guests in the bubble location in Orlando. Violators face sanctions such as warnings, fines, suspensions, and expulsion from the campus depending on the severity of their infraction. Hopefully, these guidelines will work wonders. Since a single infection could end the 2019-20 season once and for all.