ATL - Season Resumes page 87

Post #161 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:22 am

MuBucks34 wrote:Texted my friend who is high up in Bucks and the response was this “shortened regular season with empty arenas likely throughout first round of playoffs. Situation very fluid but league hopeful season will eventually resume. Definitely a fear here (referencing internally with Bucks) that situation doesn’t settle and we’re looking at possible empty arenas for multiple rounds or cancelled season all together.”

China has still been locked down in many respects for over two months now. If you extrapolate that out, we’d be talking about best case resuming on May 15th. At that point, you’d have to figure out how to reconfigure everything and take it into July. Maybe possible, but who knows.

Gobert coming down with this just changes the entire equation on pro sports.

FlagsFlyForever · Post #162 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:24 am

Meanwhile...

As sporting leagues around the world grapple with how to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese Basketball Association has told American players to plan to return as early as this weekend and prepare for the league to resume in early April.

CBA team officials are discussing several formats for how to resume play, sources told ESPN, including hosting all 20 teams in one or two cities and playing a truncated regular season and playoff schedule, without fans.

Players ESPN spoke with have expressed concerns about whether they will be allowed to return to the U.S. after the conclusion of the league, and whether they will be forced to undergo another process of being quarantined upon arrival.

Some agents said that CBA teams that their clients play for have said that if the players don't return they could be banned from the league for life and agents could lose their licences there for two to three seasons.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28884113/chinese-league-calls-americans-back-play

MuBucks34 · Post #163 » by **MuBucks34** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:27 am

paulpressey25 wrote:
MuBucks34 wrote:Texted my friend who is high up in Bucks and the response was this “shortened regular season with empty arenas likely throughout first round of playoffs. Situation very fluid but league hopeful season will eventually resume. Definitely a fear here (referencing internally with Bucks) that situation doesn’t settle and we’re looking at possible empty arenas for multiple rounds or cancelled season all together.”

China has still been locked down in many respects for over two months now. If you extrapolate that out, we’d be talking about best case resuming on May 15th. At that point, you’d have to figure out how to reconfigure everything and take it into July. Maybe possible, but who knows.

Gobert coming down with this just changes the entire equation on pro sports.

Removing some of the off days during playoff series would certainly help. They have an insane amount of days off between games to begin with. You are right on China though, they are finally starting to open ports and business again- they reported the first case in November and shut down around 2 months ago. Would not be surprised if it ends up being no fans at all games/ cancelled.

Post #164 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:29 am

Read on Twitter

Nowak008 · Post #165 » by **Nowak008** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:32 am

This is nutz. Want to send a message that the regular season matters? Hand us the trophy.

jakecronus8 · Post #166 » by **jakecronus8** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:40 am

Question: can Gobert be suspended from future contests just for being the dumbest dumb f*ck of all dumb f*cks?

Between this and his pretend crying over his all star “snub” last year he’s quickly become one of the biggest douches in sports.

0BobLobLaw0 · Post #167 » by **0BobLobLaw0** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:42 am

Could this legit change the landscape of the NBA schedule moving forward? Say the season is delayed by 6 weeks.....now we are ending mid/late July.....NBA starts Christmas day and all is right with the NBA world

Post #168 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:50 am

I’m assuming the Celtics are at the Pfister or Hyatt right now. Per league rules you have to be in the visiting team city the night before. Given the Celtics not playing tonight, they probably got into town earlier today.

Celtics are now on quarantine based on who they’ve recently played.

Mags FTW · Post #169 » by **Mags FTW** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:52 am

humanrefutation wrote:
Mags FTW wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:
FEMA and the Army Medical Corp has never had to staff this entire country at the same time.

I'm not panicking about it, truly, but it really isn't that simple.

Which is why I stipulated CITY or REGION...

Your stipulation is irrelevant because the virus doesn't confine itself to a CITY or REGION.

But it's infection rate is not the same throughout an entire country. If hospitals are projected to reach capacity in Chicago, you don't need to send doctors to Detroit too.

Wonka · Post #170 » by **Wonka** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:07 am

MoreTrife wrote:This is the worst fear mongering I've seen in my life.

This is the worst example of ignorance I’ve seen in my life. Show some f*cking respect. People are dying around the world. Just because it isn’t happening in your backyard (yet) doesn’t mean it isn’t important.

Be better.

ZeppelinPage · Post #171 » by **ZeppelinPage** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:14 am

I would imagine they will resume the regular season or the playoffs with empty arenas. The NBA would lose massive amounts of $$$ if they canceled the season all together.

Wonka · Post #172 » by **Wonka** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:16 am

Hundreds of millions of lost revenue I would imagine. At least

Erifee · Post #173 » by **Erifee** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:36 am

This sucks. Wish it had happened sooner.

RRyder823 · Post #174 » by **RRyder823** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:47 am

ReasonablySober wrote:
MoreTrife wrote:This is the worst fear mongering I've seen in my life.

Thousands dead, seems kinda important.

There might be something to it but this has 100% made even worse in the age of social media

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ampd · Post #175 » by **ampd** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:48 am

It sucks because we've had such a good season, but there are more important things than sports,and these guys have families and children and given how they live are exposed to many more people than most.

I personally hope anyone who gets this pulls through ok. This sucks for Rudy Gobert and any other victims of this than it does for me.

Milbucks96 · Post #176 » by **Milbucks96** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:51 am

RRyder823 wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:
MoreTrife wrote:This is the worst fear mongering I've seen in my life.

Thousands dead, seems kinda important.
We shutting down the league every time a player gets the flu then?

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If the flu didn’t have a vaccine or possible end in sight. Most likely yea...

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RRyder823 · Post #177 » by **RRyder823** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:57 am

Lippo wrote:
mkegb wrote:
RogerMurdock wrote:
Tell me you're a cartoon character.

Am I wrong?

4500 dead out of 120,000

35x the mortality rate of flu

The issue with that number is the 120,000 is likely horribly inaccurate as tons of people have most likely had it and only shown minor symptoms and never got checked out assuming they only had a cold

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RRyder823 · Post #178 » by **RRyder823** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:19 am

Milbucks96 wrote:
RRyder823 wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:
Thousands dead, seems kinda important.
We shutting down the league every time a player gets the flu then?

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Fair enough. I edited my post to simply say that alot of the hysteria over this has been made worse by social media. (we can debate how much and how warranted but it has)

You got me before I was able to though so well played good sir. Well played

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FlagsFlyForever · Post #179 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:23 am

RRyder823 wrote:
Lippo wrote:
mkegb wrote:
Am I wrong?

4500 dead out of 120,000

35x the mortality rate of flu
The issue with that number is the 120,000 is likely horribly inaccurate as tons of people have most likely had it and only shown minor symptoms and never got checked out assuming they only had a cold

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Which is one of the reasons everything is being shut down. People are spreading the disease because they have no idea they are carrying it. Either the symptoms are too mild for healthy people to think it's anything more than a cold or they are in the long incubation period and haven't shown any symptoms yet.

Erifee · Post #180 » by **Erifee** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:29 am

RRyder823 wrote:
Milbucks96 wrote:
RRyder823 wrote:We shutting down the league every time a player gets the flu then?

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Fair enough. I edited my post to simply say that alot of the hysteria over this has been made worse by social media. (we can debate how much and how warranted but it has)

You got me before I was able to though so well played good sir. Well played

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Seems weird for a random dude with no expertise to downplay a pandemic that is currently occurring because he has a hunch based on a half-remembered news story. Irresponsible, even. Think you may have made your own point about social media.