The waiting is the hardest part. At first, it was a couple of weeks. That was the timeframe people needed to self-isolate in order to ensure they weren’t infected with COVID-19 — even if they appeared asymptomatic. It became best and safest to avoid public gatherings so as to limit the spread of this contagious virus, and to, ideally, flatten the curve of its exponential growth. On the night of March 11th, the NBA made the call to suspend the season for “at least 30 days”, roughly doubling that two week period, and implying a possible deadline for when everything would return to normal.