The NFL held the first-round of its 2020 draft on Thursday night, and it pretty much went off without a hitch. Even with over 60 connections just from the teams, and over 100 connections lined up when accounting for potential players being drafted, ESPN and the NFL pulled off the first round on a virtual platform with a lot of success. With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe, the NFL wasn’t going to get the pomp and circumstance of traipsing through fountains of the Las Vegas Strip. Instead, everybody stayed home, most people dressed up, and everybody hardwired into executing their parts in this draft.



The NBA may to have to do the same thing at some point in 2020. Adam Silver and the league office are still hard at work trying to carve out scenarios to finish the season and get some sense of closure to the 2019-20 campaign. But they’re not even close to making any kind of decision because there is no real end in sight for what the NBA needs in order to feel...