Bullets Forever · Jan 22, 2021
How could an Olympic cancellation affect the Wizards and Mystics this year?
Photo by Yifan Ding/Getty Images Rui Hachimura would be very bummed to see the 2020 Olympic Games cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.According to various reports, including from The New York Times and The Sunday Times of the United Kingdom, there is internal chatter within the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will not happen in July 2021. The games were previously delayed one year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
If the Olympics are cancelled, they would have impacts on the Washington Wizards and Mystics, though in different ways. We’ll go over that later.
Why could the Olympics be cancelled?