Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 2189. (Read 913906 times)

It's really hard to tell, I guess everything now relies on how the covid-19 will progress, if it become worst, no chance the NBA season will resume, probably it will be cancelled, not because NBA trying to be unfair to other teams but they are just doing the right thing to do during this crisis.

As you said, it needs a lot of evaluation. These players will not be cleared if they are not 100% virus-free. It will undergo a serious medical test and I think it will take several months.

As for the player's mentality, these players are professional and trust their medical system about the results. These players are matured. If they don't believe in the result that there is no virus now among players and staff and still has a doubt to play against those players that got infected then they did not respect the ones who put effort to cure and clean the virus within the NBA.  That situation is already serving a lesson to the NBA, therefore, expect much stricter monitoring about the health of all players once this virus problem got resolved.

That's the mentality behind, once a player/s got positive with this virus those who will play against him will think for it's health. We can't blame
people's mindsets after the spread of this pandemic virus.
Gobert and Mitchell  are examples of how this virus can reach people whatever state you have in life and how healthy you think you are.

How do you even proceed after this? I mean let's say Gobert is cleared and Donovan is cleared as well, and you do tests to everyone and you cancel all the viewers in the arena and just make sure bare minimum number of people are there who are all tested and fine, it is still not NBA as we know it. Hell I am not even sure if people would want to play with players who got corona but get cured, even after being cured it will be hard for players to play against those people psychologically.

In short, we will need a lot more evaluation to continue, it may actually really take more than a month to come back. Whatever happens I am 100% certain that no team would allow to continue playoffs from right here, they will want to play the rest of the games if the season will continue.

 Plus these are NBA players, not like all of them are super smart normally, they may have some fued and all but as long as Gobert shows remorse I doubt it would be a trouble. Lets see if the league will be as forgiven tho, they have literally suspended the league because of him, without him they would be forced to suspend in a few days anyway so it is not really directly because of Gobert but he still did took it couple days early, couple days early means millions of dollars between games visitors, tickets, foods, merchandise and tv rights.

 I estimate coming back on late april or early may, that seems like the logical return when the summer comes and heat avarages increases so that covid would be less effective in those type of weather at least.

They'll have to be professional, it doesn't seem like Gobert want his teammates to get infected, he does not know he already had covid so he act as normal to his teammates, although he has done some childish acts during the interview that's why he got infected, but they'll forget it, what they have to focus now is to stay healthy and get themselves cured from this virus.

Thanks for the full story report here. 

Sure is.
It is difficult when you are part of something that ain't normal out of the many.
Well maybe if there will be millions infected he will not be that sad.
But I know he could get over this, they are not the normal average person. They are NBA players with healthy bodies and this might become just a little fever for them.

But what will happen to the Jazz team after this.
Mitchell is not happy with what Gobert did and so does other players of the team.
He might be sorry but that is still a reckless move.

However, what about if the lockdowns and the mass gathering bans continue until on May or June? It would certainly be very hard to continue the playoffs in full without cancelling some games on the regular season.

According to the report, Gobert is almost cleared to play on that game against the OKC. Yes, he will 100% play on that game. He feels healthy after all. That game will commence.

Gobert is not feeling well, maybe the day after they lose to Raptors game so he was listed as "questionable" on that game against the OKC. He was put on the medical test and the result is "negative". Gobert now just waiting for the confirmation that he is cleared to play. However, the NBA medical staff and Oklahoma health officials decided to test him for the COVID-19 test. I just don't know how they end up considering that decision.

So the one that needs to be credited here is those medical staff that decided to make another round of tests for Gobert that even he is now cleared to play on that game, they still consider testing him with COVID-19 test.

Now watching the replay between the recently Raptors and Jazz game and all I can say is "whew". It's like watching a live infection game. I now feel sorry for Gobert. I can't imagine what on his mind right now. It's surely "heavy".

Maybe continuing the games isn't out greed from the NBA Owners, at least as of then it wasn't much of a threat and they were already looking at playing with no spectators in area which have reported higher cases. However, I do agree with @Rikafip on the part of Gobert being the reason the NBA was made to realize that the games should be suspended not being so bad as it might have seemed, actually imo, it was more of a blessing in disguise, because if it weren't for Gobert's action the games would have continued and perhaps later on with no spectators(most probably), but meanwhile that's not the issue, the point is that if you look at the amount games played by each team in a week and the number contacts made per game, the virus could have easily spread across every team in the NBA within the time frame of two weeks which is the expected duration for an individual with the virus fall ill.

If you look it like that, then it is not such a bad thing after all. Led by pure greed NBA team owners didn't want to stop the league, therefore they endangered health of players and fans way more than Gobert did. By pausing NBA sooner than later, way less people will get infected in the end, therefore it could have been much worse if league was suspended few weeks later. It was just matter of time anyway, so whether it's Gobert or someone else, it doesn't really matter. Italians ignored the disease, and we see what they have going on there, this should be lesson for everyone else not to screw in situation like this.


Problem with this is that basketball is contact sport, and even without fans, players could spread disease among themselves easily, and that could hurt league way more in the long run, rather than some break. NBA survived lockouts and crises, and so will this as well.

As others already know, only Donovan Mitchell is the one that seen right away having infected with the virus out of 50+ people tested within around Jazz vicinity right after there was a confirmation that Gobert is positive with the virus. Meaning other Jazz players and all staff will continue under the mandatory quarantine period. The next one to be tested is those teams who got clash with the Utah Jazz in the past week. Hopefully, there will be no increase in infected players but I doubt that will end there.

Gobert's teammates are upset with him. The big man's action in their locker room a few days before he was tested positive of the virus is "not his usual behavior" that's why it's hard to believe for the others that he is not aware of his condition.

I'm more concerned now after the situation got under control. It will be difficult now for Gobert to regain the trust, not just to his current teammates but for the whole players in the league as well. The virus really ruined everything.

For now, this decision is for the benefits of everyone, it's tough but it's needed, taking the risk and gamble the health conditions of each and every individuals who loves this game. The board needs to decide avoiding the much higher concerned once the virus takes more people in danger.

 What gobert does will actually decide his future with the league as well, that is the biggest thing here. This dude is only 27 years old, sure he is not loved by everyone right now but he has time to actually figure out a way to make it up to everyone he affected. Dude basically suspended the league all by himself by being infected as well, maybe the league would have suspended anyway for couple weeks later or maybe just a few more days, but it was him that broke the barrier and caused the suspension.

 If he acts all nice and distributes money like kevin love did and many other stuff and actually tries to repriment what he did and shows remorse and guilt that means he still has a chance. However if he acts like a snob cock about it than he may actually be out of the league. Not like he didn't made enough money as it is, however nobody at Gobert level would want to be forced to retire at 27 years old. I doubt Donovan would ever want to play with him for example, if they are forced they would but given option Spida would want to be as far away from him as possible even after the virus.

 I do see a light at the end of the tunnel for Gobert but I also think that he needs to be very very careful, he should probably hire a PR company to help him figure this out as well, otherwise his job will be immensely difficult.

Negative to positive huh?
Still that is a bad move. There is no going back there. He could not change what he had done already.

Now people are being an alcohol freak.
I don't blame the NBA for having such a big decision here.
You can the groceries getting wild. People are in panic. I hope you are all safe while writing this.
The virus ain't that much for a healthy body since it could fight it.
But the target is those who have the history of sickness or hereditary ones.
If they are infected with this virus then it will get worse.

What if Gobert touch someone with that kind of illness from being careless.
Some people may die and he will be the one to be blamed.

There is controversial approach to what Gobert has done actually. People close to him or people who had a scare that they might have gotten corona from Gobert are finding him very guilty. Plus he was mocking about corona at locker room and touched everyone's stuff like he did with the mic thingy and now Donovan has corona as well, these dudes are 20+ year old sports players with high end medical experts around them so they will be fine, however he could have hurt someone who is on the older side with his carelessness, all of this makes people dislike him. However some small number of people including me think that what he did was idiotic but at least escalated the move quickly, thanks to his idiotic move NBA is now closed, if he didn't do it maybe there could have been more people infected, so his moronic move actually ended up being more helpful as well.

This clearly points out to Gobert's childish jokes amidst the spread of the covid-19. Though the video about Gobert touching everything inside the conference room happened 2 days before he was tested positive, but the outcome is telling him he shouldn't have make stupid jokes. Plus, there were rumors that Gobert was even touching everything inside the locker room including his teammates belongings. Im just not sure if this happens before he was tested positive or right after.
Though, I might be wrong, but I have a feeling he's telling a message for everyone because of Gobert's actions.

This is indeed crazy but the organization would not make a decision if there's no crazy threat.
Maybe they are just overreacting, the suspension is only 30 days, maybe waiting for the decision after the period would be the wise thing to do.
It's a hard decision for the NBA officials, so they'll take time to make a decision, hopefully the decision is for the benefit of all.

I agree with Tristan though, this is crazy.

The first time I saw it on Facebook, I immediately search it on google. To be honest, as Steph said it there is nothing to compare it to. As far as I know, there is this time when the NBA shortened the games being played by each team at that season. My father told me that in the past while watching Space Jam at the part where they canceled the games being played. And yeah, he sends me a message asking if I can still remember that since it is now happening.

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