Adam Silver None The Wiser As To When NBA Will Return

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league cannot make a decision about resuming the season before May at the earliest.

Adam Silver decided  to suspend the NBA season on March 11 following the coronavirus diagnoses of two Utah Jazz players.

Originally, it was going to be a 30-day suspension. However, the unprecedented global developments since then have rendered that fanciful. No elite sports league in the world knows when it will resume, apart from the NFL, which insists it’s regular season will begin in September as usual.

Adam Silver, speaking on Monday, is resigned to the fact that this could go on for a long time. As much as the league can plan for certain scenarios, it will just have to wait and see.

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“Essentially what I’ve told my folks over the last week is we should just accept that at least for the month of April, we won’t be in a position to make any decisions,” Silver said.

“I don’t think that necessarily means that, on May 1, we will be [in that position], but at least I know that just to settle everyone down a little bit.

“It doesn’t mean that, internally, both the league and discussions with our players and the teams we aren’t looking at many different scenarios for restarting the season, but I think it honestly is just too early, given what’s happened right now, to even be able to project or predict where we will be in a few weeks.”

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“The fact is now, sitting here today, I know less than I did then, and I think in some ways, just as I listen to the public health experts and the people advising us, the virus is potentially moving faster than maybe we thought at that point, so maybe it will peak earlier. What that means, in terms of our ability to come back at some point, whether it be in late spring or early summer, is unknown to me.”