As we’ve seen over the last few days, there is more at stake than the NBA saving the 2019-20 season.
Thursday afternoon saw the NBA and the league’s Board of Governors finalize its plans to restart the 2019-20 season at Walt Disney World in Orlando as the coronavrius pandemic disrupted life as we knew it. But that wasn’t all that caught the attention of basketball fans starving for the NBA’s return.
As ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski had initially reported Thursday afternoon, the league had originally targeted December 1 as the start of the 2020-21 season, nearly six weeks after the current season would come to its end following this year’s NBA Finals.