Take it as written in pencil rather than in pen, but reports in recent days have started to put some shape on what the NBA could look like over the next year or so.
Of course, with the 2019-20 season currently on hold, a finish to the current campaign will come first and foremost. Beyond that, though, the knock on effect of the current delay will then feed into when the draft and free agency take place, and when the 2020-21 season will eventually get underway.
From a Milwaukee Bucks perspective, uncertainty on those fronts prevents any clarity as to when their outstanding season may have an opportunity to be completed, when their various free agents will make their decisions on what they want to do for next year, who will be the latest addition to the roster via the draft, and also when exactly Giannis Antetokounmpo can be offered the five-year supermax contract extension that’s critical to franchise’s future.