Dwight Powell Rumors

With regularity during the NBA’s hiatus, the Dallas Mavericks’ Powell hopped on a call with Silver and fellow players — Oklahoma City’s Chris Paul and Toronto’s Kyle Lowry. The small working group – a cross-section of different levels of player status – had open and honest discussions about what was at stake and what players needed if the league were to resume the season in a bubble. It was a forum for those players to learn what the league was thinking and discuss health, safety and financial ramifications. “Through the process of talking with those guys on those calls, I really got to see just how many people were involved and how many minds were working in overdrive to find solutions to problems that were really coming up every day,” Powell said. “Every single step of the process had to be thought out, because it’s people’s lives that were at stake at the end of the day.”