It appears the NBA league office doesn’t have many fans at the moment due to how quickly the 2020-21 season came together.
According to Tim Bontemps of ESPN, the NBA league office has reportedly left top basketball decision-makers from all 30 teams out of the loop on how things will work during the 2020-21 season, which will start on Dec. 22.
That has led to widespread frustration around the NBA, per Bontemps.
“I’d love to be able to tell you something, but I don’t know anything,” one Western Conference executive told ESPN. “I find out everything from the media.”
“We know it’s hard, and they’re working on a lot of details,” one team president said. “They are listening to a lot of feedback from all of us. But at times we feel like we’re in the dark and that can get frustrating.”
The NBA is scheduled to have the shortest offseason in sports history, as it will only be 71 days. Game 6 of the 2020 Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat was on October 11.
The Lakers defeated the Heat for LeBron James’ fourth championship and fourth Finals MVP award.
The NBA wanted to start the 2020-21 season before Christmas, mostly because the league needed to preserve between $500 million and $1 billion in revenue. Money talks, and the NBA needed to recover from all the money it lost during the 2019-20 campaign.
The 2020-21 NBA season will feature 72 regular-season games. It’s going to be interesting to see how the Lakers and Heat handle the campaign since they will have the shortest offseasons out of all the teams in the league.
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