pic.twitter.com/jUy3X5zwTj. [24] The following day, the league and the National Basketball Players Association set a moratorium period until April 10, with players getting their pay in full on March 15. Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. NBA Players Union Director Charles Grantham explains the NBA’s decision to suspend the season rather than to cancel it. [2][3], The NBA had been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic closely, speaking with public health authorities such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on the matter. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nba | pageType: stories | Teams were encouraged to do health check-ins. As more information becomes available on the NBA season, its resumption or its cancellation, those updates will be posted here. The NBA season hasn’t been canceled, at least not yet. [1], On August 26, the season was suspended for a second time due to a wildcat strike during the playoffs.
In conference call with major league sports commissioners on Saturday, President Donald Trump said he believes the NFL season should start on time in September, sources familiar with the call told @wojespn and me. This is not a good indication of what might happen if the NBA tries to bring back crowds to watch basketball. For the rest of this season and next season to be viable, the two sides will have to agree to an altered financial structure that recognizes the severity of this situation. New, 26 comments. Team permitted to pay for certain travel. This latest bit from Grantham offers some hope for the NBA season and also for people in the United States overall. His actions, while not malicious, could have worsened the situation. But who knows when that might be?

NBA suspended its season after Utah Jazz All-Star center Rudy Gobert tested positive for Coronavirus, Jazz C Rudy Gobert Tests Positive for Coronavirus; NBA Season Suspended’. Even outside of Irving the lineup has been inconsistent for a plethora of reasons. Unclear, as we aren’t sure when he contracted the disease. The league did not say in its statement, but Shams Charania of the Athletic reported it was Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who had been listed on the injury report as having an illness. The NBA has suspended its season due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Please check your email for a confirmation. This might be the last we’ve seen of this year’s Utah Jazz team. Other reporters soon said they had sources which backed up Charania’s reporting. If in six or eight weeks, if it is here, we can have a different conversation, but the league is preparing for that answer to be no.". [27], The suspension drew remarks from several current and former NBA players.


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[47], On March 19, the Denver Nuggets announced one of their players tested positive three days earlier. For now, it is a scary and serious situation around the NBA, sports and throughout the world. Christmas has been mentioned in various reports as a potential start date for the 2020-21 season, but doing so would force the NBA to either compress the schedule in order to fit enough games into a campaign with an eye on moving the schedule back to its original state by 2021-22, or permanently move the schedule back so that it always begins in December and ends in the late summer, as has been discussed by the league even before this crisis. COVID-19 must be taken w the highest of seriousness. pic.twitter.com/3R8tJRQ340. As it stands, there are no confirmations on when the NBA season will resume, only uncertainty. Now, because of what Ball Corporation produces (UPDATE: I've been informed they no longer make... We're just a few weeks away from the launch of the next-gen edition of NBA 2K21 on PS5 and Xbox Series S|X, and 2K is getting ready to roll out updated player ratings for the upcoming 2020-21 NBA season (which may not begin until the new year). Maybe it's all three!

If you would have told me three months ago that I’d be analyzing players playing 2K on ESPN followed by H-O-R-S-E, I wouldn’t have believed you. The NBA had told teams they should make plans for the possibility of playing games without fans and with only essential personnel in attendance. . Players would shoot in isolation – presumably in home gyms – and match shots against competitors. https://t.co/SXmvzhLtAP. The following is a list of NBA players and personnel from the 2019–20 season that are known to have been infected: On March 12, during a special edition of Inside the NBA, Hall of Fame player and analyst Charles Barkley revealed he was tested for COVID-19 after suffering from an illness following a recent trip to New York, which was rapidly becoming the worst hit locality of the U.S. pandemic.

Levert drops 34, but Nets still fall short against struggling Wizards, Dinwiddie game winner propels Nets to 106-105 victory. [14], The NBA G League also suspended its season. Two days ago we (the NBA world) got the worst news since this whole COVID-19 pandemic started; the NBA is “angling” to cancel the 2019-20 season … 2K first revealed the player ratings for the Lakers' starting five, led by LeBron James - who at the age of 35 is still the highest-rated player in NBA 2K21. [36], The league was already set to lose revenue prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to the controversy involving Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's deleted tweet about the Hong Kong protests regarding pro-democracy. It was a joke meant to poke fun at what Gobert perceived as hysteria regarding the disease and its spread. Although it’s not official yet, this is what we all were hoping wouldn’t happen. [4] The league spoke to the players' union on the prospect of playing games without fans. [51] He later survived and was discharged from the hospital. This has got to be the CRAZIEST NBA season. But with that growing less and less likely by the day, it makes sense for the NBA to at least begin considering what a world without a 2020 champion might look like. Unfortunately, Gobert also playfully and deliberately touched the microphones and recorders of the members of the media who were in attendance for a press conference on Monday night. [68], On March 26, it was announced that Maury Hanks, a Detroit Pistons scout, had been hospitalized with COVID-19. @WindhorstESPN says there’s “a significant amount of pessimism” in the NBA and the NBPA’s talks about whether they’re going to cancel the season.

How long will this last?