Lets say an nba playoff team plane crashes and burns.

[pauls931]

Before the playoffs, I guess the 9th seed would be bumped.
How about if it happens in a later round?

[D-Wade #3]

Wtf???

[me15lo]

what ya smoked man?

[fo'shizzle]

Lay down on the joint playa!

[Muser]

lolwut

[alchemist]

The playoffs would probably be canceled.

[daslicer]

Weird questions but if it happened in another round I suppose they would replace the dead team with the team that was previously eliminated by death squad in the previous round.

[Muser]

This is probably the only way San Antonio gets past the first round.

[Donkeybong]

maybe a bye-week?

[Ghazi]

I'm actually interested in the official answer to this hypothetical.

[j.dizzle]

LOL at you for starting a thread like this on easter??? take it easy son

[Amuseddaysleeper]

There would be a D-League call up for however many players were on the original roster.

[Basketballgirl25]

I've heard that if a team plane crashes all nba teams have to pick one starter and one bench player to go on that team to make a new team, I actually find this a good way, but don't think it is true

[lurker]

I'm pretty sure Matthew Mcconaughey would be hired to put a new team together.

[Scola]

I've heard that if a team plane crashes all nba teams have to pick one starter and one bench player to go on that team to make a new team, I actually find this a good way, but don't think it is true

This ^.
There's actually a plan in place by the NBA, I read about it a while back. Basically the affected team would be allowed to have a draft, and pick up players from others teams. So the 8th team would still make it to the playoffs.

[BlackSwordsMan]

don't give stern ideas

[SpursRulez4eVeR]

what?

[BanditHiro]

This ^.
There's actually a plan in place by the NBA, I read about it a while back. Basically the affected team would be allowed to have a draft, and pick up players from others teams. So the 8th team would still make it to the playoffs.

they get to pick players from teams that did not make the playoffs right?

[Killakobe81]

This is a sick thought ...

[Scola]

they get to pick players from teams that did not make the playoffs right?

From any team I think.

"In the NBA, a disaster occurs in which five or more players die or are dismembered. Similar to the NFL, the NBA plan calls for a disaster draft, in which each team would protect five players and the disaster team then would build a team from the remaining pool of talent."
http://espn.go.com/gen/s/2001/0328/1163463.html

"If five or more players on a single team are killed or permanently disabled "anywhere in the world at any time," the NBA would hold a dispersal draft.
The draft allows the team that suffered the disaster to pick one player from each of the NBA's other teams until it has restocked its roster. The other teams are each allowed to protect five players, and for every player they give up, they receive $1 million from the disaster-stricken team's insurance settlement (up from $400,000 when the plan was first adopted)"
http://www.columbian.com/weblogs/gre...disaster-plan/

The National Basketball Association (NBA) contingency plan activates if five or more players on a team "'die or are dismembered.'"[3][1] A special "Disaster Draft" would be held in which other NBA teams could only protect five players,[1] so that quality sixth men would be available. No more than one player would be drafted from a team.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_draft

[noob cake]

I only wish this on the Jazz plane. :-\

edit: edit: edit: corrected spelling

[Pero]

Has this ever happened?

[GuerillaBlack]

Has this ever happened?

Only in college sports with Marshall, IIRC.

Hope it never happens though. Would be an extremely sad day.

[djohn2oo8]

I only wish this on the Jazz plan. :-\

You are an idiot

[milkshakeballa]

I only wish this on the Jazz plan. :-\

god damn i hope i never am on a plane with u in my life ever

karma is a