Most NBA players are expected to stand behind Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James if he decides the 2019-20 season should resume in Orlando, according to Mark Medina and Jeff Zillgitt of USA TODAY Sports.

The Lakers star and other superstar players have been avidly hoping to resume the 2019-20 NBA season. Patrick Beverley hinted over the weekend that if LeBron wants to hoop, the NBA will hoop:

Players are concerned about their lack of freedom of playing in a three-month bubble environment, safety protocols, and potential insurance against career-derailing injuries in the wake of a long layoff from basketball and workout facilities.

To add to the aforementioned, there is also the optics of a league comprised predominantly of black players playing a sport to salvage revenue and bring entertainment to the fans amid the surging Black Lives Matter movement. A number of NBA players, including LeBron, have been extremely outspoken over the last few weeks amid the nationwide protests.

Players like Kyrie Irving, Avery Bradley, and Dwight Howard have brought this up when discussing the possibility of not playing, in coalition with others like Stephen Jackson, who stand strongly for the cause. While Irving reportedly has plenty of support, it's still not expected to derail the season.

Professionals have their doubts that a boycott of the NBA season is the right measure to take to make players' voices heard:

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“A boycott is a powerful threat. But when it actually comes through, what you’ve done is you undermine the very thing that gives you your voice,” said Douglas Hartmann, a chair of the sociology department at the University of Minnesota who has also written books about the 1968 Olympics and the NBA. “It’s more powerful to find ways within the structure of athletic competition and ceremony rather than to reject that structure.”

There is simply too much money at stake to convince the majority of players not to see another cent for the rest of the season. Furthermore, boycotting the remainder of the season could lead to a nasty split in the next collective bargaining agreement.

NBA players have it the best when it comes to revenue sharing, something they have turned into massive contracts and sponsorship opportunities. To walk away from the game in order to make a stand for the Black Lives Matter movement may actually counteract the effect they want to have in society, and LeBron James feels he can bring even more attention to the movement by playing.