The NBA is going to be back. Listening to the Journals podcast about the Manhattan Project, the NBA is fully invested in doing whatever it takes to get back to the court, and as soon as possible. This is quite a funny podcast (not in the sense of its content, but in how the players in this whole process came together).
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ze...TfSmcDATP7Fm9w
Let’s face it, the NBA owners aren’t dummies, and the longer the arenas are closed the longer they are not getting a return on their investment. They are incentivized to open back up as soon as feasibly possible, but they want to be just as smart about this as they can be.
This entire process reminds me of New Orleans after Katrina. I am sure that most everyone remembers when the levees broke everyone down to the janitor at City Hall said that it would take a year or more to open back up the city. But (to slightly change the words of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park) “Capitalism, uh, finds a way.” And the city came back on line within a few months (though not to complete scale, but it came back). If there is a dollar to be made, these millionaires and billionaires will find a way to make it (recognizing opportunity is how these people made their money). The NBA will finish out this season, or at least be able to hit next season harder than ever.
NASCAR will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine as it comes back online in the next few week. If all goes well there look for other leagues to pick up steam with laying out their ground work for a return. The NFL will be rolling out their schedule in the next few weeks (heck my Saints ticket agent called me two weeks ago asking if I wanted to buy more tickets, and spoke as if this was business as usual). We will return stronger and better than ever.