Adam Silver: As we work through these issues, I can understand how some players may feel

Adam Silver is confident that the players concerns over NBA’s resumption will be addressed and resolved in the next weeks.

Per ESPN, “Listen, it’s not an ideal situation,” Silver said of the challenges the NBA is facing in an appearance on Monday night’s “Return to Sports” special on ESPN. “We are trying to find a way to our own normalcy in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of essentially a recession or worse with 40 million unemployed, and now with enormous social unrest in the country. And so as we work through these issues, I can understand how some players may feel, that it’s not for them … it may be for family reasons, it may be for health reasons they have, or it may be because they feel — as some players have said very recently — that their time is best spent elsewhere.”
“Things are changing around us,” Silver later added. “The social unrest in the country was — in the same way we never could have predicted the pandemic would unfold, in the way it has — what’s happened since George Floyd’s death is also unprecedented. I’m incredibly sympathetic and empathetic to what’s happening in people’s lives. And in the midst of all that, to say, ‘We’re looking for an opportunity to restart this league, to try to move forward with crowning a champion,’ it’s not top of mind for a lot of people.”