While the NBA has not yet made an official plan for the resumption of the 2020 season Adam Silver is due to meet with the NBA's Board of Governors on Friday in an effort to get a plan in place. One of the seemingly prevailing plans is a campus-like environment where players are quarantined to some degree. SI's Chris Mannix works through a few big questions this campus-like environment presents: Will players be allowed to bring their families? And should they?

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Robin Lundberg: The NBA will likely be playing in a "bubble city." But how much of a bubble would it actually be? For more, I'm joined by our senior writer, Chris Mannix. Chris, the latest news that maybe the players will be able to bring some members of their family along with them to Orlando?

Chris Mannix: Yeah, this has been a sticking point for the players union that players involved with an extended postseason do not want to be part of a strict quarantine. You know, some of them, many of them, have young families. Giannis Antetokounmpo just had the birth of his son very recently. And they want them to be part of this process. And over the last couple of weeks, even months, the NBA has been trying to figure out exactly how many people should be involved with all of this because there are legitimate safety concerns if you have several members of the family. And one of them happens to go outside the bubble and contract coronavirus infects the player who subsequently infects through some of the members of his team. It could create a really difficult scenario for the NBA. So right now, the discussion has been centered on exactly who is going to be allowed inside this campus or bubble, whatever you want to call it. 

Robin Lundberg: Is that why there is a delay? In a sense, obviously, you have to wait for the coronavirus to wane a little bit. But there are so many logistical factors and negotiations that have to have to happen. But they're just happening behind closed doors, unlike MLB.

Chris Mannix: Yeah. I mean, look, the NBA has the benefit of not really being in a tough financial spot with its union at this point. Like most of the players have been paid 50 percent of their salaries or more. So coming to the right financial terms isn't a major hurdle when it comes to restarting the season. Now, it could be in a 2020-2021 season as we get down the line on that conversation. But for right now, a lot of it's logistics. It's finding the right format that makes sense. It's finding how many teams to bring back and finding how many games to play when you bring those teams back. And as we've put pointed out, it is finding out exactly what the safest way is to bring players and members of their families into this campus without risking widespread infection.