The Return of Sports Leagues, Around the World

France's government has officially stated that all sports competitions are cancelled until August. Season is over.
Netherlands had also stated that soccer is done for the season.
Soccer is the sport that will dictate what will happen with the entire sports industry since it's the most profitable and popular.
If soccer is done for the season all over europe, no other sport will be played.
If i had to put my money on an option, i would bet that sports are done until fall(at least).
I don't know what will happen in US.

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KGtabake · Post #56 » by **KGtabake** » Fri May 1, 2020 7:37 am

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Ofc. He's the one who gets hurt the most. He's 35.
For Lakers this is catastrophe.
Bucks, Clippers, Celtics etc etc have years in front of them due to their stars age.

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zoyathedestroya · Post #59 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sat May 2, 2020 9:30 pm

Celtics won Game 7 against the Sixers to advance to the East Semis against the Raptors. Horford with 6 points in 30 minutes lol. Grant Williams had 18 pts in 16 mins.

Box score: https://2020basketballplayoffs.s3.amazonaws.com/May2nd/PHI%40BOS_7+BOX.HTML

Slax · Post #60 » by **Slax** » Sun May 3, 2020 12:19 am

KGtabake wrote:France's government has officially stated that all sports competitions are cancelled until August. Season is over.
Netherlands had also stated that soccer is done for the season.
Soccer is the sport that will dictate what will happen with the entire sports industry since it's the most profitable and popular.
If soccer is done for the season all over europe, no other sport will be played.
If i had to put my money on an option, i would bet that sports are done until fall(at least).
I don't know what will happen in US.

I know this is beside the point, but even though soccer is by far the most popular sport in the world, North American sports leagues are actually a lot better at generating revenue (more advertising, more revenue per ad, larger stadiums, more merchandizing, bigger TV contracts, larger and wealthier domestic audiences, etc) and being profitable (ie, they generate a lot more revenue than they pay out to players, stadium fees, etc) than soccer leagues. The EPL is the only pro sports league that generates as much revenue as the NHL and NBA, and even then its revenues are just completely dwarfed by the NFL, even if you account for tournament play like champions league. All of which is to say that there's a lot more money on the line for the NBA than for French and Dutch soccer, even though that seems counterintuitive considering basketball is a less popular sport than soccer. None of which would justify putting people's health at risk.