Send them home and then shut down the office maybe?
We're talking about a league that was losing money at a rate of about $1.6 million per day.
There were over 400 players in the league. That's over 400 flights which need to be booked, and you don't know where those flights are going or when they need to leave until you ask all 400+ players. How much time do you think that takes, even if you devote more than one person to doing it? A week? Two weeks? More?
It's absurd to think they were going to lose $1.6M/day + hundreds of thousands in flights + employee salary + rent/internet/phone/accounting costs just for the sake of P.R. for a league that wasn't going to exist anymore. If they had left the players COMPLETELY in the lurch it would be one thing, but the extra bonus check changes the narrative a bit.
It's the reality of a business closing. You don't continue to get favors from a non-existent employer even after you get your severance check and pink slip.