A year ago, the world changed. In March of 2020, the United States was hit with the Covid-19 and life as we knew it came to a stop. Basketball was one of the first casualties of the virus and the NBA shut down temporarily — an unprecedented move. In a recent article for the New York Times, Alan Blinder and Joe Drape detail the events that led up to the shut down of not only the NBA, but essentially the entire sports world.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver explains watching the situation closely starting as early as January when they shut down offices in Shanghai and Beijing.