In the last week, several players around the league have been held out due to health and safety protocols due to coronavirus exposures, and after Seth Curry of the Philadelphia 76ers tested positive, it put multiple teams in difficult positions. Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated wonders if it may be time to return to the bubble. League Commissioner Adam Silver noted that the league does have several contingency plans.
“As you might imagine, we have lots of alternative plans in the drawers,” Silver said. “Depending on how this goes, we’ll look at other alternatives if we need to.