DaveC
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Jerry Dunk
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Go fuck yourself.
mikal
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So the players are still pushing for the season to resume. I wonder how they could even do it at this point. Maybe shorten the playoffs to top 4 seeds in each conference and best out of 5 series?
LuckyNumber7
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Players, coaching staff limited to direct assistants, finish the season isolated from family for a month or two at Disney or some shit, regional play only (even if the players are in close proximity geographically, I mean).
The NBA has it the easiest.
The NBA has it the easiest.
July start - Eastern playoffs at Disney, Western playoffs in Vegas. Strong possibility of some play in games for the final spots.
Wrap around the end of August - push the start of the NBA season to Christmas. Keep the December to August schedule going forward - possibly shifting the WNBA into the early fall.
Just... Uh... Just a guess.
mikal
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I’d be good with that. I really feel like this could be the Bucks year (to at least make the Finals) and I was a bit crushed by the prospects of them not finishing the season.
It's a working plan and things could change. The PA seems on board. I think it's just a matter of working out the details.
I do know that there is a LOT of people closely watching the Bundesliga this weekend as a bellwether.
I do know that there is a LOT of people closely watching the Bundesliga this weekend as a bellwether.
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Just learned that Jordan scored 40 points or more on my Cavs 21 times. Jesus Christ.
You Canadians don't give Joel Embiid nearly enough credit for setting that screen on Kawhi's manhappy anniversary, everyone!
lazarus
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Curious why you think that is.
From a safety perspective, baseball has its players considerably far apart from one another on the field.
I'm assuming he means roster sizes and the amount of staff needed to run in a bubble - all of which would be smaller with the NBA than either MLB or NHL.
The player to player contact, which is clearly a larger issue in basketball than baseball or even hockey, would conceivably not be as big a concern if all of the players are constantly being tested.
lazarus
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Understood.
The other advantage baseball would have is that if they did at some point allow public attendance at half capacity or whatever, it's a lot safer at an outside park than it is indoors. And while playing in front of people in any of these sports is probably a long way off, the larger capacity at ballparks will allow them to space people apart from each other; like if you buy a block of 4 tickets, there won't be any seats sold directly in front, behind, or to the left or right of you.
The other advantage baseball would have is that if they did at some point allow public attendance at half capacity or whatever, it's a lot safer at an outside park than it is indoors. And while playing in front of people in any of these sports is probably a long way off, the larger capacity at ballparks will allow them to space people apart from each other; like if you buy a block of 4 tickets, there won't be any seats sold directly in front, behind, or to the left or right of you.
Hewson
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RIP Jerry Sloan
LuckyNumber7
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Yup. Easier to turn into a small production. With football that’s impossible.
The player contact thing is largely irrelevant. In all sports they’re way too close. I suppose in baseball that’s the only sport where you could make an argument that not all players have equal likelihood of breathing in someone else’s air or whatever, keep pitchers and batters as isolated populations, yada yada. More than anything though, the larger groups suffer from bigger production and more loose ends that could threaten the integrity of the isolation system.
Patrick Ewing is in the hospital with COVID and 2020 can go fuck itself
Pumped that I may end up being furloughed because a guy who thinks the earth is flat doesn't want to have to quarantine for the 5 days before his shitty team is eliminated.
Hewson
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So a guy who is injured and won't be playing is the turd in the punch bowl trying to convince the rest of the league to not go to Orlando.
Sounds right for him. I bet the Nets are thrilled with their investment in him.
Sounds right for him. I bet the Nets are thrilled with their investment in him.
How he was voted a VP of the PA is beyond my comprehension.
Also beyond my comprehension - Dwight Howard being given a platform.
Also beyond my comprehension - Dwight Howard being given a platform.
Hewson
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Yeah really, dude is tall enough he doesn't need to be elevated.
DaveC
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Jerry Dunk
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Malcolm Brogdon has Covid.
Hewson
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Avery Bradley says he won't go to Orlando due to his son's health issues.
LeBron recruiting JR Smith to replace him.
LeBron recruiting JR Smith to replace him.
Jerry Dunk
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Especially since it's not a bubble when so many people are allowed to go in and out of it.
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DaveC
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best wishes to the #4 greatest toronto raptor of all time in his retirement. 
If they close off the one hanging chad... the Disney staff being able to leave at the end of the day... it doesn't matter if the bubble is in an ICU unit or on the moon.
If they don't close that off, then it's a disaster waiting to happen.
They're going to close it off.
If they don't close that off, then it's a disaster waiting to happen.
They're going to close it off.
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