Is the NBA coming back? By Ethan V.

                  Is The NBA Coming Back? 7-7-20

By Ethan V.

    

    In June, the NBA announced that its season will be returning after it was suspended when Rudy Gobert, the center for the Utah Jazz tested positive for the Coronavirus. He was the first of many NBA players to test positive for the Coronavirus. I was very excited when the NBA announced that it was returning because it had been a long time since I had seen sports. But my hopes are down now because my favorite team, the Charlotte Hornets, won't be playing when the season starts up again. What I mean by that is the NBA is only letting 22 teams go to Orlando, where the games are being held, and the Hornets are not part of those 22 teams because they are terrible. 

    

    Another reason my hopes are down is many NBA players are not coming back for many different reasons. First off, Bradley Beal, a shooting guard for the Washington Wizards isn't going to Orlando because he has a shoulder injury.  Six players on the Brooklyn Nets aren't going to Orlando and they are Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAndre Jordan, Wilson Chandler and Nicolas Claxton. This is terrible for the Nets because these are their strongest players and it's very hard to compete without them especially against teams who have all of their players. There are 3 players on the Washington Wizards who are not going to Orlando, Bradley Beal (who I already talked about), Davis Bertans, and John Wall. Other players who are sitting out include, Willy Cauley-Stein of the Dallas Mavericks, Avery Bradley of the Los Angeles Lakers, Trevor Ariza of the Portland Trail Blazers, Kelly Oubre Jr. of the Phoenix Suns, LaMarcus Aldridge of the San Antonio Spurs, and last but not least Bojan Bogdanovic of the Utah Jazz. The reason I listed so many names is to show that there are a lot of players that are choosing not to return. Most of these players are sitting out because of injuries or testing positive for the Coronavirus, but some are holding out because of the Black Lives Matter movement. Players had until June 24th to tell their teams that they would not be playing.