Time is nearing for WNBA, other pro leagues to make decisions about 2020

Ideas are swirling. But there are still more questions than answers about how professional team sports will operate in the coming weeks and months.

The NBA and Major League Baseball want to resume their seasons and crown a champion.

The WNBA, which was supposed to tip off its 2020 season last weekend, wants to get started to piggyback off an interesting off-season that saw positive momentum from a successful collective bargaining agreement, intriguing trades and a virtual draft that included the introduction into the league of a potential superstar, No. 1 pick Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon.

All three leagues are strongly considering singular sites for competition, as a way to better control the safety of athletes by lessening their travel and exposure to others and quarantining them in the same hotels while they play games in one arena that would be serviced by the same vetted game-day staff, without fans.

The witching hour for making these kinds of logistical decisions that will have significant and long-term ripple effects is nearing.

For instance, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has already stated that there will be a point in which it will be too late for the league to get in its full season, and that point will probably be early July.

To start games in early July would mean that the WNBA would probably need to start training camp in early June, mid-June at the latest, to give the players and coaches a suitable amount of time to prepare for the season.

We’re nine days away from June 1.

So, I think we should know something a little more concrete soon.

It’s exciting to think that we may have some sports to look forward to this summer. They’ll look…