It was also around that time that Covid-19 itself went from being a epidemic to the world's first pandemic since the H1N1 "Spanish Flu" virus that broke out and was first reported in 1918 among a sick Army recruit at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas then spread like wildlife to other parts of the globe over the next 2-3 years, before petering out in a less virulent, weakened state in Australia/New Zealand in early 1922. I believe the 2019-20 NBA season was cancelled until around early August and they had a hurried-up play-in NBA Title tournament at Disney Studios in Orlando or IIRC, in Los Angeles.