NBA veteran Jay Williams Doesn’t Want To Burst Your Bubble But Admits Season Restart Is In Serious Jeopardy

We’re just weeks away from a potential NBA season reboot and commissioner Adam Silver still can’t seem to make up his mind. Silver was a leader in shutting down sports when COVID reared its head in the U.S. back in March. Since then, he has wavered in his opinion on whether finishing the NBA season is a plausible idea. Former NCAA Champion and NBA player, Jay Williams, appeared on ESPN’s First Take to discuss the matter.

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The audacious Stephen A. Smith referred to Williams as a “political pundit.” I don’t know about you, but I am starting to think Williams is the only one with a realistic attitude about finishing the 2020 NBA season in the current climate. I love sports too, but Williams is spot on. When are we going to start asking ourselves if sports is worth risking thousands more innocent lives? Unfortunately, if and when we ever do, it’ll be far too late.

The first group of NBA teams arrived in Orlando Tuesday night to begin the league’s plan to resume the season in the Disney bubble environment. Commissioner Adam Silver has been faithful in that the season will indeed resume. But his attitude about it has been inconsistent, to say the least.

“I think we do have the ability to trace, of course, to try to understand where that positive case came from,” Silver said of any positive cases inside the NBA bubble. “We can actually analyze the virus itself and try to track whether if there is more than one case if it’s, in essence, the same virus and same genetic variation of the virus that is passed from one player to another or two people have gotten it on the campus independently. So those are all things that we are looking at.”

“Certainly if we had any sort of significant spread within our campus, we would be shut down again.”

Silver recently said that we cannot run from this virus, but he certainly seems to be trying. He is yet to make it clear how many cases it would take to constitute a “significant spread” within the bubble. Allow me to give you a very elementary answer. One. Has Silver not heard the viral story about the group of girls that went out the day local bars reopened? All 14 of them went on to test positive for the coronavirus. I could be wrong, but I doubt they were rubbing their sweat covered bodies up against each other. It only takes one, people.

Unlike Silver, Jay Williams has been very consistent in his attitude toward a potential NBA season restart. I said in a previous article that I don’t know where the sudden sense of optimism came from. With the state Florida is in, I didn’t think a single NBA team would ever make it down to Orlando. Yet here we are. To reiterate, I want to watch live sports just as much as anyone else. But I find it asinine that the NBA is seemingly moving forward with the plan to restart the season. Any other year, all 30 NBA teams would be at home at this point. How is it a good idea to restart the season now, in the midst of a global pandemic? It just doesn’t seem worth it to me. But hey, what do I know?

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