According to the report of experts, it is likely that the new NBA 2020-21 season will lack a series of stars.
After six Finals games, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat had just over a month of rest before entering the 2020-21 NBA season with 72 group stage matches.
This is considered a huge challenge for the players when they have just gone through a year of 2020 with too many changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Too short a rest period can greatly affect the fitness problems of the stars who plow a lot in Orlando like LeBron James, Anthony Davis or Jimmy Butler, etc.
More than a month of rest is too little for the players to plow a lot in Orlando like LeBron or Butler. “I do not believe that the LA Lakers or the Miami Heat players will play their best when the season is on December 22, there are a lot of players who will have Load Management even not on the list,” reports from ESPN.
In addition, a series of serious injuries in Orlando also affected the performance of the teams before entering the new season. The disparity is causing a headache to resolve the NBA.
Teams present in Orlando only have more than 1 month of rest, in contrast, teams that are soon eliminated and do not play in the bubble have a break period of up to 6 months.
Golden State Warriors are considered as a team with many advantages after half a year of rest. The gap is too large, promising to create an advantage for teams like Golden State Warriors or Brooklyn Nets with the return of stars after injury.
Currently, the time of the new season has been closed, but the COVID-19 situation in the US has not shown signs of cooling, the case of playing in a closed bubble like Orlando is completely possible again.
So the experts are afraid that the number of injuries will have a chance to escalate again, the teams will have to find a way to solve that and it accidentally causes the tournament to be questioned about professional quality?