If I’m nervous about how this will go – and I am – can you imagine how Adam Silver feels right about now?
I’m not the NBA Commissioner who’s trying to restart the season amid an ongoing pandemic, to take nearly a thousand people to Orlando, Fla,. and somehow create a medical safe haven at a time when the national death toll due to COVID-19 sits at 107,029 as of this writing. I’m not the one whose players, coaches, executives and staff members are so devastated right now in the wake of a second national crisis, with the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin offering the latest reminder that black lives still don’t matter nearly enough in this divided country.
Emotions are raw. Hearts are hurting. People are on edge.
The last thing anyone wants, Silver chief among them, is a tone-deaf tipoff. Worse yet, what if this bubble city at Disney World bursts and people actually get…
