After closing its doors on March 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA has been non-committable about if and when its season would continue. And considering nearly every other collegiate and professional sport has been put on hold with no immediate return in sight, pessimism has been evident.
But today, the NBA came one step closer to being the first major sport to return to action.
This afternoon, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the NBA is set to allow teams to open their practice facilities to players in cities and states where local governments have eased stay-at-home orders beginning May 1.