Is this NBA Season Over?

On March 11th, the story of Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 shocked the entire sports world, the events that followed next shocked the entire world. The NBA immediately announced that the NBA season will be suspended, for the foreseeable future.

Adam Silver said that the NBA season will be suspended for at least one month, the only problem is that with this pandemic we are facing, the news is changing everyday. Everyday the COVID-19 has shut down another state, the death toll is rising, and the entire world is trying to flatten the curve.

There was a report that the NBA owners and players want to salvage this season "no matter what." The NBA is exploring options that could have the season going into July, August, or even possibly September. Now with the season being extended the next question is how will this affect the next season? There is a growing number of owners and media members who wants the season to begin on Christmas, this will prevent the NBA from competing with the NFL for viewers and interest. The Atlanta Hawks CEO has already proposed this idea before the pandemic caused the season to be postponed.

Bill Simmons said on his recent podcast that Labor Day is quietly the secret day to look at during this time. The NBA doesn't want the Finals to compete with the NFL season, this could cause for the worst rating NBA Finals of all time.

NBA owner Mark Cuban said in a recent interview that he believes the NBA season will start back up on June 1st, while NBA Broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy is convinced this season is over. If the NBA season is cancelled it will cause a lot of problems and issues.

Someone like the Clippers will now have just one year to impress Paul George and Kwahi Leonard, who can opt out of their contracts after the next season. While the 76ers will make no drastic changes, giving Brett Brown another year as the head coach. The Warriors Finals streak is still alive, with there not being an NBA finals, and LeBron James will have missed the playoffs another year in his career, which ESPN analysts will convince themselves to use against him. However Knick's fans can convince themselves that this year wasn't a complete failure because they technically didn't miss the playoffs.

No one truly knows what's going to happen, thats a fact. If you want to know what's going to happen you're going to need someone from the future to tell us what will happen. From now on we need to listen to health experts and go from there. In my best guess I would say that the NBA season will continue in June.

The New York Knicks Biggest Mistake

In 1976 the NBA and ABA merged into one league, at this time the NBA acquired the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers. The Knicks were so upset about this merger, because now they will have another team in New York competing with them in their own league, that they demanded the Nets had to pay out a $5 million indemnity payment. The New York Nets owner, Roy Boe, couldn't afford the payment at the time, so he offered the Knicks Julius Erving for the payment. The Knicks turned this offer down and this move would be called the biggest mistake in franchise history.

Ultimately the Philadelphia 76ers would buy Dr. J's contract for more than enough money to pay off the Knicks. Roy Boe would go on to say "The merger agreement killed the Nets as an NBA franchise. …The merger agreement got us into the NBA, but it forced me to destroy the team by selling Erving to pay the bill." The next season the Nets would go on to finish a league's worst 22-60 record, this would force Boe to take the team back to New Jersey and rebuild.