Mayor John Tory cautioned that it might still be a few more months until sports are played in Toronto.
“On the basketball front, there really hasn’t been any sort of specific discussion with us about how you would play games in front of no fans and make sure you complied with public health,” said Tory, who said discussions with Ujiri centred mostly around practice facilities.
On the NHL front, Toronto was floated as a possible “hub city” for NHL games should the league resume playing in 2019-20, but Tory said any talks with the Maple Leafs didn’t extend beyond initial conversations. “They described to us about how that would work with teams staying in hotels and going back and forth in busses and all of this, and we’ve really not heard much more about it,” Tory said. “Suffice it to say, in respect to a lot of things, we are not contemplating any situation in which there would be large crowd scenes.”
Earlier Friday, the City of Toronto announced the cancellation of city permits for events with more than 250 people until July 31 — a ruling that puts the Honda Indy in jeopardy — while events with more than 25,000 people will be cancelled through Aug. 31.
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