Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 2221. (Read 923269 times)

Even though it's always about the bottom line for NBA, I strongly doubt the games will ever resume even with no crowd until there is a viable solution, vaccine perhaps. If there is some sort of containment, how then would they be sure of the players not being infected or what would be interval of players undergoing test again in cases of reinfection, as I don't presume being infected once would make immune to reinfection.


I would prefer changes to the number games played in the playoffs, best of 5 or 3, I'm even good with a single knockout match but, I'm not in support of changes to the current match rules, It will take more time for both referees and players to adapt to just so many changes.

I see some interesting ideas there, especially the one called "Mid-range 3-point zone". It could definitely bring more variety, as I am sure that I'm not the only one who is kinda bored with all that 3 pts shooting. Yeah it was fun at the beginning when GSW started dominating that way, but after some time it made teams one dimensional, and as they pointed out in the article, it brought us to the situation where Rockets are having 45  three point attempts per game. With that being said, the other idea, "One 3-point foul shot for all three points" is also not bad. Introducing even one of these would be improvement.

With one idea I strongly disagree though, and that's to give automatic 2 free throws for so called Euro Foul. I really don't think that NBA has to remove another tactical and physical aspect of the game. NBA is already fast enough and at the moment some games in regular season look like exhibitions with no defense and all that three point shooting, and this would just make it even worse than it is already.

One thing that I would like to see changed and I didn't see in the article is to sort out traveling. Referees should really focus more on that and start calling them. I understand that they probably have instructions to let it go in order  for games to  be more spectacular, but in my opinion, it is getting out of hand for years now, and something like that would be good for the game. Maybe I'm just old an school type of fan,  but I miss defense aspect of the game.

Doris Burke is the new name that got Corona, I am not entirely sure if she got it from anyone NBA related or not but this is the trouble with the virus, you could get it at anywhere at anytime and you would have no idea, you can just be walking down the street and some fans may want to get a selfie and you could basically get it right there and then. Hopefully she and all the other people will get better because it was first the basketball players who were young, now casters who are not so old but still older than players, next stop is literally coaches who are old and I do not want to hear Greg Poppovich has corona, I can't take that.

New York Knicks owner James Dolan has corona and he is about 60 or so, definitely above 60 if I am not wrong, I hate the dude but I hope he gets better as well, maybe realize life is too short and he only has like 20-30 years maximum even with the best medical attention, so he tours with his band and sells his team and lives a rockstar life or something and stops annoying NBA fans.

Healthy layers like them got a higher chance to recover from this virus, their physical activities plus the advantages of getting professional treatment from specialist adds the value.
It's good to see that more and more from this league are getting better, after this, they should focus taking more activities to strengthen their immune systems.

I am okay with it, seeing them watch in a daily basis would certainly make the fans enjoy while they are at home, and since we are at home now, their revenue will certainly increase in terms of PPV, but let's see if this will be realize consider how bad the US hit by the COVID-19.

Pay per view can still work if it is money they will need.
It is better than nothing right?

Anyways, even with the virus going on some people are still talking about money.
Gordon Hayward is being put in that rumors.
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/celtics/nba-rumors-execs-expect-gordon-hayward-opt-34-million-celtics-contract

How about something to blow your mind?
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/eliminating-foul-outs-and-six-more-radical-nba-ideas-to-ponder-during-the-coronavirus-sports-hiatus/

Then back to the virus. Knick owner James Dolan.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-knicks-owner-james-dolan-joins-durant-gobert-among-nba-figures-to-test-positive-for-covid-19/

Yeah there  have been a lot of rumors lately  regarding that possibility, and yes, there would be losses for all teams, especially those that will go into playoff, but what's the alternative? To not finish season at all and have even more losses? Then there is question of draft, next season etc..

With virus spreading throughout US rapidly, i don't think that it is reasonable to expect this season to finish in a regular way, with normal playoff in front of fans.  So only way to finish it and still get some money from sponsors are games behind closed doors. Yeah it would suck big time, for the owners of the teams, players and fans, but pro sport will have to adapt to this new situation, there is no other way. After all, games without fans is something that we got used to here in Europe, albeit for different reasons.

Choose playoff teams based on current standings, put them all in one location, isolate them from others, and let the show begin! There is no much sport activity around the world anyway, so view numbers  would go through the roof!

I have no idea what the NBA should do. But I know one thing, the NBA exists solely as a money-making machine. There's no point in playing games that don't generate profit.

I agree, no need to take risk for players like Mitchell and Gobert, and even if they have recovered, we don't know the extend of the damage, if there is to their body, might be the virus is just hibernating. So he needs to be very careful and take every measures to protect himself and the people around him.

As others have said, US is now the ground zero, I do hope that we're not going to see six digit futures cases.

I think is not about the homeless who doesn't have a home to lock themselves. But its about the mindset of the people. I'm thinking that Americans didn't take it seriously in the beginning, as the case of Italy that's why the virus spread very quickly and then the shortage of testing kit, major hospitals in the US are not equip with this kind of pandemic. As compare to China, who immediately lockdown the centre of the epidemic, test the whole population and close cities, that's why in months, there are new cases as oppose to US and Italy which the numbers are growing everyday.

Regarding NBA pursuing a fan-less games, well it's a good plan, but I don't know if business owner are going to agree with that.

I've read some good news lately for the Jazz.

--> https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/jazz/2020/03/27/rudy-gobert-donovan-mitchell-rest-jazz-cleared-coronavirus/2926370001/

Yes, it's possible but all staff and individuals must be 100% virus-free. If I'm not mistaken someone posted a plan here for a possible charity game just to continue the season. It's not about the revenues anymore since the majority of players also like to play. Fewer revenues just to continue the season.

Age defies their performance and that's what mid-players concern. As long as everyone is cleared to play, it will be possible. There is a lot of consideration before it will happen.

But in reality and looking at the current situation, it's far from happening now since the total number of confirmed cases in the USA is increasing. People there might not spend money on a pay-per-view as no matter how luxurious some people lifestyle there, they need money to battle the virus just in case of the worst-case scenario.

I hope NBA won't get cancelled and somehow we at least get to see PLAY-OFFS and same goes for every sport in my opinion but the health right now its more important than this. The issue is that the virus seems to spread more and more so I'm afraid the lock-down will be much longer than its currently been said.

I have read it somewhere that it is possible to continue this NBA season in a crowdless arena. I mean, they will play their remaining games minus the fans in the stadium.

Is this possible? What about the revenues or all other stuffs economic-wise?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It takes time to go from East to West and that is why it is also taking a lot of time to send the cure if ever there is one.
But there is what we call technology so I bet they can do it faster by now.

I may have to agree with this. If not, then there will be a new arrangement to finish this season and another short cut for the next season.
That is to equal the the time spent with Covid-19 lockdown and then maybe afterwards they could start again with the normal kind of game.

The trouble that USA has is the thing that made USA such a powerful nation to begin with in history, its the land. Normally it was a nation built upon a whole continent size country and they had so much land that was uncultured that they took over and became the biggest nation in the world thanks to it while all others were dealing with less land and less resources to go on.

However that massive land, even with all the improvements in technology, is the trouble they have right now. Building test kits in multiple locations and distributing everyday all the time constantly without stopping is hard. Hospitals needs new kits every single second, they are literally keeping people in lockdown in hospitals until kits arrive, which is taking some time considering it is quite further apart from each other.

NBA might actually be cancelled for good this year I am afraid, I want it back as well but it looks like it is getting more and more impossible each day.

One of the reasons this has happened because they did not impose the lockdown protocol as soon as the outbreak in China became unstoppable. now they are hit by this huge problem right at their head. because the USA is not like China, they having a hard time controlling their people especially those homeless who don't even have a home to lock themselves on. I really hope this will end soon, I really miss watching NBA games seriously.

I agree with that, though America is a rich country, there are also poor people out there that needs the help of the government.
If this fight is only handled by the US, even if they are a big country, I have doubt that they can stop the spread in just a short period of time.

US might not think of asking help from its rival country, but if this situation worsen, they don't have a choice.

Right, there has been no reported cases in China, on the contrary US has overtaken Italy on the number of people getting affected by the corona virus. Yes lockdown is a good measures, but I think there should be mandatory test on everyone in the US, specially big states like New York and Los Angeles as the virus is quickly spreading in big cities.

I don't think that we need to worry about NBA players though, yes they can be affected as well, but there body is always healthy and could get the best medicine to help them out.

In a daily basis, the number of infected people have increase and the fact that US now become the number 1 in terms of number of cases, they should put everything in lock down, they have to deal with this virus properly as it's life of the people are at risk here.

What measures they really do? Why is it the number of cases has been skyrocketing?
Does the measure means its not effect?