The NBA has suspended all basketball games until April 10, at the very earliest. And while the league is hopeful that the suspension of play is exactly that - a suspension - they have to prepare for the possibility that the season will be canceled.
And if it is, the owners of the league’s 30 teams have a provision in the Collective Bargaining Agreement that will let them off the hook for some of the player salaries.
According to a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the National Basketball Players Association sent a memo on Friday to its players, outlining the potential worst-case scenario:
The CBA includes a clause called the force majeure event clause that includes multiple dramatic scenarios — including epidemics — that the league could trigger in the event of a worst-case scenario.