Opinion | Will Leitch: NBA season suspended over coronavirus fears. But our sports blackout may be just beginning. - NBCNewsTHINK
The problem is sports are simply not built to withstand extended delays. The schedule is too tight and too reliant on its reliability and regularity. The NFL just announced its. These sports leagues have had their structures and routines in place for decades, and they tend to run like clockwork. When one spring breaks loose, it can be hard, if I can mix the metaphor, to get the trains back running on time. Taking one week out of any sport's calendar messes the whole machine up.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has probably shown more leadership than the federal government; a good argument could be made that his decision to suspend the NBA season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus was the first time much of America started taking this situation seriously. Silver's decision happened days before President Donald Trump declared a national emergency.
But even Silver's initial proclamation, that the NBA would be out for 30 days, is looking increasingly unlikely to stand., the Chinese Basketball League paused its season back on Feb. 1 and, now that the situation in that country has stabilized, is hopeful to resume in early April. But that is widely considered unlikely.
The same goes for Major League Baseball. MLB was even more ambitious, with the commissioner saying the sport would be out for"at least" two weeks. But even if some sort of magic wand could make all the coronavirus in the world go away this exact second, it's difficult to see how that would be possible.
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