The National Basketball Players Association is reportedly in favor of the 2020 release signature era beginning “several weeks” after the proposed October 18 start date.
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN said the league’s monetary uncertainty in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic can cause a delay.
According to the league’s provisional schedule, the NBA expects to start the 2020–21 season until December 1.
Commissioner Adam Silver said 40% of the league’s profits came from door receipts and other purchases similar to fan attendance. If we decide that the NBA will have to play the full or the entire 2020-2021 season without fans, there will be significant implications for the salary cap.
Given the condition of the virus, the NBA is unlikely to have a formalized plan for next season until October 18. NBPA President Michele Roberts said it was imaginable that the league would have to create some other bubble for players to accept. play next season.
“If it looks like today, I don’t know how we say we can do it differently,” Roberts told TIM Bontemps of ESPN last July. “If it looks like today, and today we all recognize, and today it’s not Michele who talks, it’s the league, with the AP and our respective experts saying, ‘That’s the way to do it’ – then this is going to be the way to do it.”
The NBA discovered good luck with the bubble, as no player has tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the games. However, the setup is also prohibitively expensive and unrealistic for a normal six-month season. The league and players would have to negotiate the season layout and bubble, which would be put back in position for a possible delay.
Groups are unlikely to start acting freely until negotiations between trade unions are concluded because of uncertainty over the wage cap. It remains conceivable that the assets will use the force majeure clause to terminate the collective agreement, which would further delay the planned season.