The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association continue negotiations on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, pushing to get a deal in place that will satisfy both sides on a way to start the 2020-21 season.
According to a report by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski NBA commissioner Adam Silver held a call with team general managers Monday and stressed that with no timeline in place yet for a start to the season there is an increasingly smaller window to get back for the Dec. 22 start the league had hoped to implement. According to Wojnarowski, Silver told the GM's, "We're running out of time."
One league source said that a Board of Governor's meeting is expected to be held Thursday, one day ahead of the deadline for the NBA and NBPA to agree on a new CBA. With television network partners hoping to have the league start-up in time for a Christmas Day show and the league having an interest in the early start which would allow a 72-game schedule and still finishing up in time to allow players to participate in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, reality still is intruding and making it harder to see it happening.
