LeBron Dismisses Report About Cancellation of 2019-2020 Season

On Thursday morning, a report by Jabari Young with the CNBC sent the basketball world into doubt. In Young’s report, he mentioned how several NBA executives and other stakeholders were calling for the 2019-2020 season to be cancelled.

The season has been on hold since March and, according to the Commissioner of the NBA, Adam Smith, there is no clear timeframe when the game could return.

Los Angeles Lakers star, LeBron James was quick to call out the report, saying it was not true. He tweeted, “Nobody I know saying anything like that. As soon as it’s safe we would like to finish our season. I’m ready, and our team is ready. Nobody should be canceling anything.”

What LeBron is saying is that, to his best of knowledge, everyone is still hopeful that the season resumes, even when there is no decision on when that could be.

Young’s report highlighted the issue of liability that could come with restarting the season, especially as there is no sign of the pandemic ceasing or a vaccine in sight. The US still suffers the highest cases and death toll in the world, making it all the more difficult to put a date to when the season could resume.

There is also the concern of money that would be spent to resume the season. So far, the NBA has lost a great deal of money these past few weeks they have been away. Even though they would make money when the season resumes, it might not be able to make up the cost of resuming the game.

LeBron does not seem to subscribe to any of Young’s points. He had already admitted, some weeks back, that it would be hard for him to find closure if the season was cancelled. He is very optimistic that the season goes on and it is not surprising why.

Based on his last few games before the hiatus, LeBron made some great strides, especially crowing Lakers as the king of Los Angeles after they defeated the Los Angeles Clippers. He could just be on his way to win his 5th MVP title.

CEO of San Antonio Spurs, R.C Buford has agreed with LeBron, saying that the NBA has every intention to resume this season, as well as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, who expressed that the season would resume although without fan attendance. He said, “I’m cautiously optimistic we’ll be able to finish a season for television. I don’t expect that we’ll have fans.”

Written by: Leon Osamor