© Kelley L Cox | 2020 Mar 12
NBA optimists took another hit on Sunday afternoon.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, NBA owners and executives “increasingly believe a best case scenario is a mid-to-late June return to play” with no fans in attendance, following the Center of Disease Control’s recommendation that no events of 50-plus people are held for the next two months. The league is “scouting for possible arena dates all the way thru August.”
This latest development runs counter to the league’s hope that play could resume 30 days from last Thursday, which Commissioner Adam Silver pointed at as a best-case scenario. The regular season was scheduled to conclude a month from today, on April 15. There is still no guarantee the 2019-20 season will be able to resume.
Currently, three players — Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell and Christian Wood — have been known to have contracted the coronavirus, the pandemic that caused closures of all of the major sports leagues in America last week.