The Houston Rockets haven’t played a game since March 10th, which is when they ended their four-game losing streak and defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves. In the days that followed the Rockets’ victory, the novel coronavirus made it’s way to the NBA, as league commissioner Adam Silver was forced to shut the league down for an unbeknownst amount of time.
There had been reports of pessimism mixed in with optimism, which provided proof that no one really knew what was going to happen. There were those in the Rockets family like Jeff Van Gundy and Clyde Drexler who worried that a return wasn’t the best idea.