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Would Cancelling the NBA Season Benefit the New Orleans Pelicans?

When you are a young team like the New Orleans Pelicans, time is on your side, especially this season, when the best player on the team still isn’t old enough to buy a beer.

There is a growing consensus among NBA executives that the season should be cancelled so the NBA can focus on next season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

But there is a second group, now being led by LeBron James, that wants no part of a cancellation and thinks the NBA should resume whenever they can:

This makes sense for Lebron.