Nobody knows what happens next with the NBA season. Maybe it starts back up again not long after the current 30-day suspension; maybe it goes on much longer.
And maybe the entire season and playoffs are canceled.
If that worst-case scenario plays out, it’s going to hit the NBA hard financially, in a season it’s already taken a several hundred million dollar hit from the controversy with China back during the preseason.
How big a hit? Maybe half a billion dollars. NBC’s own Tom Haberstroh did some back-of-the-envelope math on just how much gate revenue alone the NBA could lose if there are no more games.