NBA - The Re-Open: - Connaughton has Covid-19, pg. 94

Post #1241 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:45 pm

Good let the media drool over all the other teams. ,

Chuck Diesel · Post #1242 » by **Chuck Diesel** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:50 pm

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StickeeFingaz · Post #1243 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:05 pm

Little bit of a misleading headline. Rudy Gobert can’t smell things from afar.

emunney · Post #1244 » by **emunney** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:09 pm

Hopefully other teams are overlooking us too.

MoreTrife · Post #1245 » by **MoreTrife** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:24 pm

StickeeFingaz wrote:Little bit of a misleading headline. Rudy Gobert can’t smell things from afar.

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DingleJerry · Post #1246 » by **DingleJerry** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:22 pm

CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

emunney · Post #1247 » by **emunney** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:07 pm

DingleJerry wrote:CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

I think 6/24 was the opt-out deadline?

StickeeFingaz · Post #1248 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:09 pm

emunney wrote:
DingleJerry wrote:CBS power rankings today mentioned Lou Williams is contemplating sitting out. I don't recall having seen that before but seems a big loss. Of course that makes LAL path easier but from the Bucks perspective I guess having both LA teams down a player helps. And neither is the 'star' so the narrative stuff isn't a big deal. That said, I'd still guess Williams plays. the pressure to play on a true title contender will be too much. But, I also don't know his reasonings or anything, like if there is a specific family reason of some kind.

I think 6/24 was the opt-out deadline?

Woj said teams were treating 6/24 as a soft deadline. I believe hard deadline is 7/1 when official rosters are due.

skbucks1985 · Post #1249 » by **skbucks1985** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:11 pm

Williams had previously said he was 50-50 on returning so I assume CBS is operating off that information.

I think the 6/24 deadline is mostly so that teams can sign players to fill roster spots for those opting out. And if Williams was opting out, I imagine the Clippers would probably give Jamal Crawford a call

Chuck Diesel · Post #1250 » by **Chuck Diesel** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:12 pm

I’m sure Woj will clarify the next player is opting out “To focus on building birdhouses with his nieces and nephews” or something. Definitely not because of the pandemic.

Bucknado · Post #1251 » by **Bucknado** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:03 am

DAJJ tests positive. Do we have a list of all the positive players who aren’t coming back this year?

Post #1252 » by **paulpressey25** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:05 am

Bucknado wrote:DAJJ tests positive. Do we have a list of all the positive players who aren’t coming back this year?

Every player whose team is not a contender and who has at least $25 million in the bank right now from prior earnings.

There, that’s your list. 8-)

BucksFanSD · Post #1253 » by **BucksFanSD** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:33 am

Ariza, Bertans, WCS, Bradley, D. Jordan, & Wilson Chandler.

brettski · Post #1254 » by **brettski** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:46 am

Looks like Dinwiddie will be added to the list very soon.

midranger · Post #1255 » by **midranger** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:32 am

I couldn't laugh hard enough if Zion pulled out.

Chuck Diesel · Post #1256 » by **Chuck Diesel** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:36 am

Always appreciate the players who choose to effectively communicate their own message.

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midranger · Post #1257 » by **midranger** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:29 am

My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

FlagsFlyForever · Post #1258 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:14 am

midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

steger_3434 · Post #1259 » by **steger_3434** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:56 am

ElPeregrino wrote:
midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

They only lose 1% of their salary if they are a healthy scratch? Seems like that’s an incentive not to play. If my company said sit at home and enjoy your time off and it only costs me 1%? I’m doing it in a second

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FlagsFlyForever · Post #1260 » by **FlagsFlyForever** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:16 pm

steger_3434 wrote:
ElPeregrino wrote:
midranger wrote:My guess is there is a pay difference if they "opt out" as a healthy scratch vs too sick to play with illness.

There is. Opting out when healthy results in forfeiture of 1.08% of a player's annual salary for each game missed. Players who are too sick/injured to play receive their full salary for the games they have to miss.

They only lose 1% of their salary if they are a healthy scratch? Seems like that’s an incentive not to play. If my company said sit at home and enjoy your time off and it only costs me 1%? I’m doing it in a second

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1% for each game missed. Opting out of the entire season means losing between 9-15% depending on how far their team goes in the playoffs.