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Olympics postponed until 2021

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While sports were shutting down left and right, the Olympics continued to say the summer games were still on as scheduled for some odd reason. Finally yesterday the Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach officially postponed the games. The plan is for the Olympics to now take place during the summer of 2021.

Five Celtics were among the forty-four players on the preliminary roster for the 2020 Olympics. Who knows who will be on the 2021 roster. My guess is if the NBA is able to finish this 2019-20 season late and then start the next season late, it will also run late and/or have more back-to-back games (Sensing a "late" theme?