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Miami, Oct 3 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – Oct 3, 2020): NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he believes the league is unlikely to pause a delayed 2021 season to allow the player compete in the postponed Tokyo Olympics.
“We will consider it,” Silver said in an on-court interview with NBA tv before the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat met in Game 2 of the NBA Finals in the league’s quarantine bubble in Orlando, Florida.
“I think, at the end of the day, it’s unlikely that if we start late we will stop for the Olympics.” The league’s 2020 season was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, closed in March and resumed in late July, more than a month after the NBA title would normally have been decided.
Silver has already said that the 2020-21 campaign will not start before Christmas, which means that it will run until the scheduled start of the Tokyo Games on July 23, 2021, which was postponed a year due to the pandemic.
“It’s not just a function of stopping only during the period in which they would compete in Tokyo,” Silver said.
“They would need a training ground and then rest.” Silver was confident that the United States would resist well the decision not to make a pause for the Games, but acknowledged that it could be more difficult for other countries whose best players compete in the NBA.
“I’m a bit worried about some of the international teams because some of their stars play in our league and their absence would make a big difference for those national teams,” he said.
“Having said that, I can only say that these are such extraordinary circumstances that even if we set out to plan the Olympics, how can they know what the world will be like next summer and if they can move on?” I think. During these extraordinary times, all the conventional rules are off the table and everyone will have to make some adaptations. “
