NBA Season has been Suspended.

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If you told me it's been 10 years since the NBA was suspended, I would've believed you.

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I see only 3 ways the NBA season resumes before a Covid vaccine. The 3 ways come about because with a 14 day incubation period and 450 players, an expectation that every single one of those 450 players and all the coaches, trainers, etc. perfectly self-isolates to a point where a 14 day period elapses with no new infections and all the previous cases recovering is extremely unlikely.

Option 1. Send everyone to a secured location, where each can be safely quarantined, while those already infected recover. When everyone is ready to go, they play at that secured location until the champ is crowned. This would be something like a military base in the desert.

Options 2. Infect them all. Let them recover. Then it doesn't matter because nobody can catch it. However, although statistically none of the players are likely to die, that isn't the case with coaches and other staff. Source : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Option 3. Pick a point in time, send them all to a secured location, and let them play on knowing that infections are going to occur, and just let it take it's course. Play if you can, don't if you're too sick.

Realistically, I don't see Options 2 or 3 as being acceptable risk. Which leaves us with Option 1.

Does anyone see any other realistic options?

[ConnorHenry]

I see only 3 ways the NBA season resumes before a Covid vaccine. The 3 ways come about because with a 14 day incubation period and 450 players, an expectation that every single one of those 450 players and all the coaches, trainers, etc. perfectly self-isolates to a point where a 14 day period elapses with no new infections and all the previous cases recovering is extremely unlikely.

Option 1. Send everyone to a secured location, where each can be safely quarantined, while those already infected recover. When everyone is ready to go, they play at that secured location until the champ is crowned. This would be something like a military base in the desert.

Options 2. Infect them all. Let them recover. Then it doesn't matter because nobody can catch it. However, although statistically none of the players are likely to die, that isn't the case with coaches and other staff. Source : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Option 3. Pick a point in time, send them all to a secured location, and let them play on knowing that infections are going to occur, and just let it take it's course. Play if you can, don't if you're too sick.

Realistically, I don't see Options 2 or 3 as being acceptable risk. Which leaves us with Option 1.

Does anyone see any other realistic options?

You want to be optimistic but the news gets worse by the hour. Barring a miracle, I don't see the NBA or NHL competing this season.

Good point I saw yesterday about the Olympics is how can you train right now? IOC is staying resolute but I don't see this being resolved in time to carry out the Olympics.

MLB might be able to play a partial season but as more time goes by pitchers have to be stretched out again, requiring another spring training. It gets to the point that you can't play a long enough season.

NFL has until September but camps begin in July and OFAs before that. I think camps will be hard-pressed to commence on time.

I hope I'm wrong about everything but right now the trajectory just doesn't look favorable. And while no sports is the least of our worries, not having that diversion makes it all feel worse.

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I see only 3 ways the NBA season resumes before a Covid vaccine. The 3 ways come about because with a 14 day incubation period and 450 players, an expectation that every single one of those 450 players and all the coaches, trainers, etc. perfectly self-isolates to a point where a 14 day period elapses with no new infections and all the previous cases recovering is extremely unlikely.

Option 1. Send everyone to a secured location, where each can be safely quarantined, while those already infected recover. When everyone is ready to go, they play at that secured location until the champ is crowned. This would be something like a military base in the desert.

Options 2. Infect them all. Let them recover. Then it doesn't matter because nobody can catch it. However, although statistically none of the players are likely to die, that isn't the case with coaches and other staff. Source : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Option 3. Pick a point in time, send them all to a secured location, and let them play on knowing that infections are going to occur, and just let it take it's course. Play if you can, don't if you're too sick.

Realistically, I don't see Options 2 or 3 as being acceptable risk. Which leaves us with Option 1.

Does anyone see any other realistic options?

You want to be optimistic but the news gets worse by the hour. Barring a miracle, I don't see the NBA or NHL competing this season.

Good point I saw yesterday about the Olympics is how can you train right now? IOC is staying resolute but I don't see this being resolved in time to carry out the Olympics.

MLB might be able to play a partial season but as more time goes by pitchers have to be stretched out again, requiring another spring training. It gets to the point that you can't play a long enough season.

NFL has until September but camps begin in July and OFAs before that. I think camps will be hard-pressed to commence on time.

I hope I'm wrong about everything but right now the trajectory just doesn't look favorable. And while no sports is the least of our worries, not having that diversion makes it all feel worse.

I'm not that worried about training camps. Test everybody, then put them in draconian isolation for some weeks. Teams will be only too happy to do things that way given half an excuse.

But what happens over the course of the season, if the pandemic picks up again and another general lockdown is needed?

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Japanese Olympic Committee official calls for postponement of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2881032001

Kaori Yamaguchi, a retired judo athlete, told Nikkei that she believes the IOC is "putting athletes at risk" by asking them to continue to train, as usual, in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — a message that president Thomas Bach and the IOC have communicated to athletes as recently as this week.

Yamaguchi, who is one of the committee's 23 executive board members, added that she plans to argue her stance to the rest of Japanese Olympic Committee in a March 27 meeting.

"Unlike other sporting events, the Olympics symbolize the ideal that sports bring about world peace," she told Nikkei, a newspaper in Japan. "We should not hold (the Olympics) if people across the world can't enjoy themselves."

The Olympics would start July 24.

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Horrible

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glass half full mindset about all of this is that it's likely another season LeBron won't win a title. He'll be 36 next year. Meanwhile Tatum is 19! It's almost our time!

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Come on people. WTF is going through these billionaires minds?

[Taget]

I'm gonna say something that may be unpopular but I think is the sad truth. Not only will the season probably be cancelled but it should be. First we're not even at the peak in New York. It is going to appear everywhere just some places months later. And the whole point of stay at home orders is not to eliminate the curve but to flatten in. A whole lot of people are going to get sick for a whole lot of time.

Second assume we can have a rump playoff over summer using the current league standings. What is that even going to look like? A lot of players will be in physical shape for the season with home gyms and what not. A lot won't. Maybe a few have personal basketball courts. Most won't. It will be a really bad messy pre-season. It will be ugly and won't really represent pretty much anything about any team.

We also need to accept when this subsides there is going to be a round 2 just like with the spanish flu come fall that me even worse.

I say cancel this season. Prepare for NEXT season to be shorted and starting late.

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Come on people. WTF is going through these billionaires minds?

Nothing. Sadly most of these billionaires don’t see us as people. We are just tools to acquire more wealth.

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Great hire for Chicago(imo).
If they let him do his thing, hire the GM he wants and they hire someone like Kenny Atkinson or Becky Hammond as HC, the Bulls will be competitive soon.

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