basketballRob wrote:Zombiesonics wrote:This whole idea of the owners “scrapping the cba” because players are uneasy about playing in a bubble for 2 months where there IS NO REAL
PLAN going forward? Nobody knows what happens if a team gets hit with the virus... they just automatically get disqualified?
The optics of this aren’t great imo with the nba haphazardly rushing to not lose money , even if their league could take an even more colossal hit for a various of reasons.
I doubt a whole team would get it with daily testing. They came out with a study that asymptomatic people can't spread it. You can only spread it when showing symptoms.
By the way, next year and the year after, players will have the possibility of getting coronavirus.
The WHO did briefly claim that asymptomatic spread was 'rare' (not impossible), but they walked that statement back almost immediately. In any case the WHO has a poor record of Covid-19 predictions and seem to be influenced by optics/politics as much as science at this stage so I wouldn't bet my life, or my league, on their expertise at the moment.
I agree that playing under the specter of pandemic is inevitable unless the league wants to go on a 2-3yr hiatus, but I think it's also true that the league has handled this transition incredibly poorly.
The league is making drastic changes with input from only a handful of representatives when they actually need something close to 90% buy-in from their work force for this enterprise to be feasible at all. The league had to know that at least a few players were going to question the wisdom of the 'bubble' idea so they should have sought out the reasons why those players were concerned and spoken to their concerns directly. At minimum they should have held a vote where all the players got a say just to at least establish the veneer of popular will. Instead the owners voted, representatives from the NBAPA quickly rubber stamped that decision, and now some players feel like they're getting strong-armed into something they never chose.
The situation has been further complicated by new details like how Disney employees can move in and out of the 'bubble', a detail I'm sure many players did not expect. So if a player was shaky about the situation that's just making things worse, the league says 'oh, it's safe, there's a bubble' then you find out the bubble only applies to you not everyone you'll potentially come into contact with. The whole restart has been slapped together too fast, the push back was inevitable. It's up to the league to answer the concerns, if they ignore them it will get worse. They have to be receptive to the worries not only so they can restart in August but also so we can have basketball in 2021 and beyond.
