Season Suspended for 30 days minimum UPDATE Mimum 3 month Hiatus

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Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur 1h

The NBA has told its teams that the league will be suspended for 30 days, minimum.

That’s an aspirational timeline, to be clear. It’s a minimum, and it’s almost certainly not in their control.

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This is from a Raptors beat writer.

Rachel Nichols was on First Take earlier saying this could be the impetus the NBA has been waiting for to shake up the schedule. The Hawks CEO recently said he wanted the season to start in December and go through August so the NBA has less overlap with other sports.

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It will be interesting to see where things go from here.

UPDATE from Woj

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Fears exist of a season completely lost, especially based on the slow response of the United States to flatten the curve of the coronavirus and make testing available on a widespread basis. The CDC issued a recommendation on Sunday night that no events or gatherings should include more than 50 people for the next eight weeks.

...For now, there's a working plan that games would return without fans, and teams have been told to search out arena dates well into August for the playoffs, sources said. Teams have been directed to give the league office potential dates at smaller nearby game venues, including team practice facilities, that could spare the use of empty, cavernous arenas and possibly provide backdrops to unique television viewing lines.

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