The Thunder-Rockets are set to play Game 7 Wednesday night, and the loser faces an uncertain future.
The same is true for every NBA team this off-season, because of financial uncertainty. We don’t know what the 2020-21 salary cap will be. We don’t know what kind of revenues can be expected for the 2020-21 season, whether teams will have fans at their games or even if there will be home games. We don’t even know when the 2020-21 will start.
Those are the issues facing all 30 teams, be they the Lakers or the Hornets. And the uncertainty for the remaining playoff organizations -- there are nine left as the Thunder and Rockets take the court in Lake Buena Vista, Florida -- becomes the focus as soon as the team leaves the NBA bubble.