NBA should learn from the NFL the draft this past week had the highest view ratings ever they blew it out of the park. Players and coaches are not going to want to come back and play 3 or 6 games and they have a mini Playoff in front of hardly anyone. It a time for them to shut it down have the damn draft and figure out next year WTF they going to do next year.
Yes, just as the NBA set a great example by closing the season they should do the same in whichever manner they re-open. They were indeed "an example of responsibility." I couldn't agree more. "It's just that important,".....lives depend on it.
I was all in for this season being over.... Looking forward to the draft
If they cancel the season shouldn't every team get in the lottery considering no one made the playoffs because there wasn't a playoffs to play? how would that work exactly? That would be fair because even if they resume season it will have an asterisk mark on it.
I still hope they resume the season and play it out till Sept. Have the NBA draft in late Sept, season starts in December. If they cancel the season all teams should be eligible for a lottery pick, no one made the playoffs. Obviously worse record gets higher pick.
Last edited by Chillen; 05-01-2020 at 10:11 PM.
That's a terrible idea. What if a team like the Lakers,Bucks,Clippers get a top 3 pick? That would be awful. The lottery should include only the 14 teams with the worst records at the time of the stoppage.
Who knows, but if they are talking about a December start to next season I doubt if they are going to be playing out the season unless it's something without fans.
Sounds right.
MGM Resorts International has pitched the NBA on an audacious proposal to house their athletes and necessary support staff to hold their seasons on a quarantined block on the Las Vegas Strip, according to Kevin Draper of the New York Times.
MGM has ownership stakes in more than a dozen hotel-casinos in Las Vegas, and per the report they envisions a fully quarantined campus, essentially one full block of the Las Vegas Strip, where players would live and play out whatever schedule the leagues want. Plus, the athletes would be joined by their families, league and broadcast media employees, as well as the staff and vendors needed to serve them, with access to lounges, spas, restaurants, gambling and all the other perks the resorts offer.
SOURCE: New York Times
May 1, 2020, 8:11 PM ET
Vegas/Disney they both want the cash infusion. What about the report from NBA executives having a problem with coaches over the age of 60 coming back to the benches since their age group is the most susceptible to coronavirus. It's on ESPN.com right now. Why don't they just make the headline - "Pop, it's time to retire, you mean bas !"
If Fauci is right we'd be in the early part of a horrific SARSCov2 season by then on top of the flu season. Not sure though since the disaster in Ecuador on the equator where it has been 90 degrees and humid for two months straight kind of makes you question if SARSCov2 is anywhere near as seasonal as the various flus we always have circulating.
Why is that a terrible idea? if the season is cancelled it's only fair to be fair to all NBA teams. No one makes the playoffs if there is no playoffs. It will go down as a cancelled season. It doesn't matter what your record was. Of course it would suck immensely if Lakers or Clippers got a top 3 pick but it's fair though so I hope the NBA doesn't think about fairness.
It's not fair at all. The purpose of the lottery is to help terrible teams get better and make the league more compe ive and not help a contending become a super team. A team like the Lakers,Clippers have superstars so they don't need another bail out which the lottery would give them.
This is tough. The nba has positioned itself as a global leader and a company that prides itself on treating their employees right. All that goodwill and great work to build the brand could be undone if they come back and people get sick.
I get it. There is a lot of money at stake to finish this season. But is 20 games + playoffs for one year really worth the potential damage? That is a really tricky situation and NBA would be absolutely roasted if they come back and this goes sideways.
It’s like a multiplier effect since they are positioned as a player friendly and progressive league. Right or wrong, the backlash will be severe IMO because of that. It will be called fake and hypocritical and everything else under the sun.
Tough spot for Silver.
I think they should just scrap the season; it will hurt, but their brand will be intact and they will probably be viewed as THE leader in the business community. Unequivocally putting profit aside for the sake of their people. That alone may help with some of the financial losses. How much? Tough to say, but my guess is it would help.
They can survive not finishing the season long-term. Making a mistake here would be far more difficult to recover from (they would, look at all the crap the NFL does).
i want the season to return but that obviously isn't what's most safe.
Reopen America. Don’t be scared of germs.
The potential for damage is too great. The NBA were leaders is recognizing how dangerous COVID-19 was and were a great example to others. Keep it that way.
As it is Texas is really going out on a limb reopening certain things, as the rate of new cases is on the rise.
Yeah, I’m sure laying off and furloughing thousands of nba employees will be a lot better than maybe a few young, healthy people getting sick and surviving.
What’s most safe is for you to never leave your house again. But yet you do. There are risks in everything we do in life. Deal with it.
The draft was never designed to be fair. It was designed to improve balance by improving bad teams. I mean, the lottery itself isn’t fair. Truly awful teams have much better odds than just garden variety bad teams. If you want truly fair, put one ping pong ball in the hopper for each team. That’s fair.
Now they are talking about the concern of older coaches in the league who are more susceptible to the virus.
Turns out Coronavirus isnt that deadly, new research put the death rate around 0.25%, meaning if the entire USA got the disease (impossible), then less than 1 million out of 330 million would die. That is not nearly enough to justify any of this. Quarantining needs to end. Those who are at risk should take further quarantine precautions if they choose, those who are not at risk should social distance and wear masks so we dont overwhelm hospitals. No need to ruin the economy and cause more destruction and collateral damage to livelihoods and our prosperity.
Source? Fox News?
New York City is has a population of 8.4 million. Antibody testing shows an estimated infection rate of around 25%, so 0.25*8.4 = 2.1 million infected in NYC. There have been 19057 COVID deaths in NYC per the John's Hopkins stats
19057/(2.1*10^6) = 0.0091 = 0.91%
70% is probably a lower bound for how much of the US can get it before herd immunity starts kicking in.
That would be at least 0.91%*0.7 = 0.64% of the population = 2.1 million dead in the US. And that's with a mortality rate from a hard lockdown that kept New York City's hospitals from being completely overrun like Northern Italy's were, where they had to start denying ventilators to anyone 60 or over when their healthcare system collapsed. If you just open the country and let SARSCov2 run unchecked there is a great chance many hotspots pop up in the US where they do get completely overwhelmed like Northern Italy was. Who knows what that 2.1 million becomes then?
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