Commissioner Adam Silver suggested the league was considering a number of different options to cope with the shutdown.
players could face quarantine or self-isolation to allow them to play in exhibition games before the season can resume, league commissioner Adam Silver said.. New guidelines published on Sunday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommended events attracting more than 50 people should be canceled or postponed for at least eight weeks as the U.S. battles to contain the outbreak.
"One of the things we've been talking about are, are there conditions in which a group of players could compete — maybe it's for a giant fundraiser or just the collective good of the people — where you take a subset of players and, is there a protocol where they can be tested and quarantined and isolated in some way, and they could compete against one another?" he said.
Sporting events are just one aspect of every day life to have been significantly altered by the coronavirus outbreak. On a broader scale, the global economy has ground to a halt and is heading towards a recession that could dwarf the 2008 global financial crisis in terms of severity.
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