We’re not quite at all systems go yet, but you have likely heard that the NBA has formalized its return to continue the 2019-20 season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Given the state of health concerns, all hands will be on deck with the worst-case scenario, as in an NBA player testing positive for COVID-19, being a very real threat, as well as injury, even as the league looks to limit and seclude players in their so-called campus environments within Walt Disney World in Orlando.
That sentiment reportedly extends to replacement players, which ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks reported last weekend is a very real mechanism that may be implemented when play picks back up on July 31.