NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a news conference before an NBA preseason basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Saitama, near Tokyo. Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong
With the Knicks set to begin their offseason workout sessions Wednesday the possibility that they might not be playing a game until 2021 has become very real.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver, speaking on a CNN panel Tuesday afternoon, said that the hopes he originally expressed of starting the season Dec. 1 and then moved to Christmas Day may be unrealistic.
When moderator Bob Costas asked him for a start date and if it could be a shorter season, Silver admitted that it likely won’t start until 2021, but he remained hopeful that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association could come up with a way to navigate a full 82-game season with fans in the home arenas.