The Covid-19 pandemic played havoc with the NBA in 2020, and commissioner Adam Silver said the league is expecting NBA players to skip next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. a full schedule and playoffs would not be completed by the time the postponed Tokyo Olympics begin in July. “I think it’s unlikely, at the end of the day, that, if we start late, we would stop for the Olympics,” Silver said after Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The lack of NBA players would affect not just the United States. With more than 100 international players on NBA rosters, countries like Australia, France, Spain and even host Japan (Rui Hachimura) would be impacted.

Source: The Star October 04, 2020 21:01 UTC