After the coronavirus pandemic shut down the Barclays Center indefinitely, Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai pledged to pay the venue's employees through May.

“With the aim of helping Barclays Center staff get through this difficult time, we commit to provide relief to hourly employees for the paychecks they would have earned it Brooklyn Nets regular season games and non-Nets events at Barclays Center were to continue as originally scheduled. The plan will cover the period from now until the end of May,” Tsai promised.

Tsai, who became the majority Nets owner last August, also owns Alibaba—a Chinese e-commerce giant. However, according to a new report in the Observer, at least 15 Barclays Center employees haven't received compensation yet.

“The bottom line is the Barclays Center is out there bragging to newspapers that they are taking care of their people and their people are being discovered that haven’t seen a dime,” the arena's jumbotron manager, Chelsey Hearn, told the Observer.

“When we made the decision to continue paying thousands of Barclays Center hourly workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we focused on those who are either on our payroll or work most, if not all, events at Barclays Center,” the Nets said in statement. “This far-reaching net captured arena employees including guest services personnel, concessionaires, housekeeping staff, security, maintenance crews, box office staff, lighting personnel, electricians and many others who support our venue day in and day out.

Earlier this week, Tsai, who is currently quarantined in Hong Kong, told the New York Post that the league's owners are split on whether to resume the season or not. Tsai noted that, not surprisingly, owners of teams in championship contention were more eager to find a solution than owners of lottery-bound teams. Tsai, whose Nets (30-34) occupy the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference, said he was under a “gag order” from the league in terms of sharing his own opinions for returning to basketball.

If the playoffs do occur during the summer, it's possible injured stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant could potentially be healthy enough to suit up. Brooklyn parted ways with head coach Kenny Atkinson on March 7th, four days before the league halted its season.