Statement from the New Orleans Pelicans on NBA’s suspended season
The New Orleans Pelicans released the following statement regarding the NBA’s decision to suspend the season:
Pelicans support NBA’s decision to suspend season amid coronavirus concerns, team says
The New Orleans Pelicans stand by the NBA’s decision to suspend the season amid coronavirus concerns, the franchise said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
Report: New NBA coronavirus restrictions include no team workouts, players remaining home, more
The NBA has released updated guidelines for all of its 30 teams on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
Walker: Games will eventually come back — but until then, what are we supposed to do?
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Pelicans limit travel, won’t practice in coming days as NBA says it’s halting play for ‘at least 30 days’
The New Orleans Pelicans arrived home in the wee hours of the morning Thursday. Instead of continuing on from Sacramento to Salt Lake City, which was supposed to be the next stop in their four-game road trip, they headed back to New Orleans, where they will wait out the coronavirus.
Hollinger: What to know about the suspended NBA season and when it could resume
So …. now what?
The NBA’s Waiting Game Begins
Once free agency took on a life all its own, the calendar became the NBA’s manifest destiny. Anything was possible in a world where the league drove interest during its summer sabbatical; if enthusiasm could surge through June and July without a single game being played, then why not August? Why not September? The diversion James Naismith dreamed up to keep schoolboys occupied in the winter months became a year-round enterprise with its own built-in content machine.