Appearing this morning on ESPN’s Get Up (video link), Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that the NBA remains hopeful that the 2019/20 season can resume at some point, rather than being cancelled altogether.
“Hopefully, this virus runs its course over the next 60 days or so, and at that point we can start making decisions about does the NBA play games, what our schedule looks like, how we would progress from there,” Cuban said, noting that the situation is fluid.
Asked by ESPN’s Rachel Nichols whether his speculative 60-day timeline meant that the league would be prepared to have the playoffs end in August rather than June, Cuban replied, “Absolutely.” However, he cautioned that the NBA may not pick up right where it left off by playing its full schedule.
“I can easily see us playing the last seven-to-10 games of the regular season to get everybody back on course and then going right into the playoffs and going into July, if not August,” he said.
One team executive who spoke to Howard Beck of Bleacher Report put the odds of the season resuming at 90%, but didn’t have an estimate for when that might happen. Another team official speculated to Beck that the league could resume play in mid-April and go “straight to the playoffs.”
While the speculation from Cuban and other team officials may reflect discussions and brainstorming sessions the NBA has had with its owners and executives, it’s far too early to draw any concrete conclusions about the plan going forward. The league will have to be patient and see how the coronavirus situation plays out around the country in the coming days and weeks.
So if season is postponed till June/July or even start of next season
We just gonna call it a shortened season like mlb did back in the 90s and start new season or we gonna resume play?
If the season is suspended to July, it would have to be completely abandoned.
no they can play it in August.
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They can do anything they want after this “hold”. They won’t just abandon the season and start over. Probably a abbreviated end to the season to act like a tune up and the playoffs.
this hold? how long do you think that’s lasting? NBA players are now testing positive for covid-19.
Wake up!
3 months. SARS last a couple months.
Wash your hands. Get your vitamins. Wipe down surfaces before touching them in public.
I’m gonna buy stock in disinfectant and toilet paper companies.
If they do resume the season, there’s no way that Gobert should be allowed on the court if everything that has been said about his actions is true. It’s inexcusable.
It’s already been way more than 60 days since the initial breakout in China! What a dumb thing to say.
Its dumb to think our whole culture will not be shutdown for the current season? At the very least they can have empty stadium games without those who had the virus (thank Rudy for that). The world has to go on at some point.