With a global pandemic being everyone in the world’s primary concern, the sports world continues to be on hold. The NBA is now on Day 12 since they last played, back on March 11 and sports across the world, even the Turkish Basketball League, are postponed indefinitely. And it’s now only a mere formality that the 2020 Olympics, scheduled for this July in Tokyo, will join the rest of the sports world.
IOC member Dick Pound told USA TODAY’s Christine Brennan on Monday afternoon that the 2020 Olympics will be postponed, with the details of the postponement to be ironed out in the next four weeks. The Australian Olympic Committee has told their athletes, some of whom play in the NBA, to train for the summer of 2021.
With the Olympics going on the postponement, especially if it will be a year until they go on, could make it much easier for the NBA to salvage the 2019-20 season. Without summer commitments to national teams in an Olympic year, players will have much more time to potentially salvage the season, even if they play games without fans.
