NBA looking to no compete against Olympics to avoid “significant financial turmoil”
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The league wants to end the 2020-21 season by mid-July to avoid competing with the Olympics.
The NBA is estimating that there would be “significant financial turmoil” if the season competed with the Summer Olympics for television ratings, sources told Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
A potential mid-January start would take the season into July, thereby competing with the Olympics. A January start could also cost the league up to a billion dollars in revenues. This is why the NBA prefers a December 22nd start date, while the NBPA have pushed for mid-January to begin the season.
Fonte: Adrian Wojnarowski.