Here's how each major North American sports league is preparing to resume games — and what they need to see happen before they do
This looks pretty good right about now. Photo: Patrick Smith/Getty Images This week there has been more hope about the future of sports in 2020 than at any time since the coronavirus pandemic abruptly shut down the NBA on March 11.
MLB. Major League Baseball is being the most aggressive of anyone, and for good reason: They have a whole season, or some simulacrum of it, to fit in, and unlike the NBA and the NHL, they haven’t even started it yet. With one month of the baseball year already gone, they’ve got to hustle. NBA. Well, Stephen A. Smith says there’s “going to be a season in June or July,” and doggone it, he said it so emphatically that I feel like I have to believe him. But if you’re one of those unfortunate souls who does not base your worldview solely on Stephen A.’s level of enthusiasm, it’s a bit shadier. Perhaps because the NBA was the league most at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been the most cautious about looking as if it is in any hurry to get back.
WNBA. The league just had a very successful draft, its highest-rated in 16 years. And it has two big advantages the NBA doesn’t: First, it only plays 34 regular-season games, with the longest offseason in all major North American sports. Second, its schedule already had a month off built into this year for the Tokyo Olympics, which are now not happening. The WNBA is in no hurry, and it doesn’t need to be.
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