NBA needs to be prepared to pull the plug on Orlando restart

The NBA is hoping to restart its season at Wide World of Sports at Disney. But the area is dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases. (Photo by Todd Anderson / Disney via Getty Images)

As coronavirus cases continue to rise within Central Florida, the NBA needs to be ready to pull the plug if it cannot guarantee player health and safety.

The sports world has been planning a return ever since things with the coronavirus seemed to calm down and life began to creep toward normalcy.

It was a sudden jolt when the NBA closed itself down with the reality of the virus touching the league directly. The NBA became inadvertent leaders in taking the virus more seriously — not that they were not before,…