Mark Cuban driving the NBA Season to resume
Mark Cuban has certainly taken the lead as the driving force to get the NBA Season back on track. That’s great news for DFS enthusiasts and NBA Fans across the country.
Forbes Online reported:
With the NBA inching closer to a sense of normalcy with the reopening of some teams’ practice facilities on Friday, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says that he will advocate for the resumption of games, albeit without fans in attendance. He appeared on CNN over the weekend and spoke with Wolf Blitzer about his desire to get things up and running again.
“If we can play with no fans, I’m certainly going to push for it and I think the league will do it. I think we have a moral obligation to do it, Wolf,” Cuban said. “We’re dying for content. We’re dying for teams to root for. We’re dying to get excited about games and ready to cheer as a community. And so yes, I really think that if we’re able to pull it off without fans, we’re certainly going to do it. And like I said, we have a moral obligation to it.”
Choice wording aside, this has been Cuban’s position since very early on. Soon after the NBA suspended its season over concerns about the spread of COVID-19 among the ranks of its players, Cuban began taking to the airwaves to express his desire to see games recommence, when medical professionals deem it safe, in some fashion. The shift in tone as well as his willingness to “push” for such games is the latest development in his stance.
“Even if we have to put people in hazmat suits and hose them down and disinfect them before playing, I think the NBA will do whatever we can, once all the experts say it’s okay to play in front of no fans first because we need sports,” Cuban told me in March. “And just being able to play in front of no fans and just streaming it and putting it on a television I think would be huge.”
A move to play games without fans wouldn’t be a wholly unprecedented decision for the league. It scheduled a game between the Brooklyn Nets and Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center in San Francisco in which fans could not attend. That game never occurred as the league postponed its season the day prior to it taking place.
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