Nets owner: NBA is divided on if to restart season amid coronavirus pandemic

The Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers sat atop NBA conference standings when the coronavirus pandemic caused the league to become the first major North American professional sports competition to halt play due to the virus outbreak on March 11. 

While both teams, and other clubs chasing the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy two months ago, have plenty of reasons to request that the 2019-20 campaign concludes in full, others around the Association may be fine to wait things out and begin anew in the fall or winter months. 

As Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post wrote on Monday, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai told a virtual classroom of students at Stanford that individuals throughout the NBA are divided regarding what to do about remaining regular-season games and the playoff tournament.
Tsai's daughter is a junior at Stanford. 

"There is a chance for them to go to the championship," Tsai reportedly told the students last week when speaking about the clubs at the top of the league's standings. "Of course they want to play. If you are in 28th place, maybe this season isn’t that important. There is a difference in opinion among the owners, as well."
Meanwhile, Tsai kept his thoughts on if and how the season should restart to himself:

“I’m kind of under a gag order of what I really think the NBA should do,” said Tsai, who is quarantined at his home in Hong Kong. “Everybody is still trying to figure things out, with the hope that maybe we can reopen the current season.”

The NBA and National Basketball Players Association haven't come to terms on proposals for either the 2019-20 or 2020-21 seasons. On Friday, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the league is considering pushing the start of the next campaign to December "independent of whether the 2019-20 season resumes and is completed." 

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr raised eyes in April when he said his team was already operating "in offseason mode."