NBA commissioner Adam Silver admits that significant spread of COVID-19 could potentially shut the NBA season down.
Silver’s comments come just weeks before the league is set to finish the regular season in Orlando:
“We believe we’ve developed a safe and responsible way to restart the season,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on a conference call Friday. “We are left with no choice but to learn to live with this virus. No options are risk-free right now. We can’t sit on the sidelines indefinitely. We must adapt.
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“We’re coming back because sports matter in a society. They bring people together when we need it the most.”
However, Silver later acknowledged the season that was suspended on March 11, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, may never be completed.
“We haven’t worked through every scenario … [but] if we were to have significant spread of coronavirus throughout the community, that ultimately might lead us to stop it,” Silver said. “We’re not saying full steam ahead no matter what happens … but we feel very comfortable right now with where we are.”
In the first wave of mandatory tests this week, the NBA reported that 16 out of 302 players tested positive for the coronavirus.
