Looks like the NBA is done for the year.

[Garion_55]

I kinda figured it would be the minute they suspended play.

Was looking to be a real exciting playoffs too. Labron taking the lakers to the finals maybe winning it all for kobe.

3 things would have needed to happen for the games to start back up.

no fans
fly all the players to vegas and lock em down
unlimited testing of the players and staff and tv crews

the nba was considering the first two. no fans is easy but might make the games boring. locking everyone down for 2 months away from their families was a lot to ask but maybe doable.

unlimited testing? when average americans still cant get tested? people who might need it cuz they are sick?

but millionaire players will have access to unlimited tests during the playoffs? so they can make their billionaire bosses more money while most people are out of work?

the optics of that would not be good.

thats why none of the sports teams will be back in action imo until there are enough tests for every american.

and im guessing all of the owners are getting seriously pissed off at trump while he sits on his ass and does nothing because that is costing those owners money and their livelihoods.

[TexasTowelie]

1. One of my friends from college is the Senior Vice President of Events for the NBA.

I wonder how he has been able to weather the recent events.

[Garion_55]

2. the league is set to lose a TON of money from no playoffs.

thats where they get most of their revenue.

and if there are no games, the players dont get paid.


not to even mention all the workers at the stadiums and people like your friend whose job relies and games being played.

[JI7]

4. Where does the money come from ?

from television views or people attending the game ?

[Garion_55]

7. mostly TV revenue

TV accounts for most of the NBA’s revenue. For the 2016-2017 season, TNT and ESPN re-upped their contracts to an estimated $24 billion in total. Even with a total of 400-odd active players making an average of close to $5 million annually, national TV contracts generate enough revenue to cover salaries and then some. However, those national contracts still leave 1078 regular-season games unaccounted for. Filling in that gap, local TV contracts can gross between $120 million and $150 million annually.

[TexasTowelie]

5. I suspect that he is staying busy.

Part of his job includes planning with the USA team for the Summer Olympics. I doubt that he is standing in the unemployment line, but he may have taken a pay cut. He has held that job for several years so he should have built up some savings,

[sfstaxprep]

3. Why Are You Posting This?

What source are you citing for this information? There is nothing I can find saying the NBA has made a decision on what to do yet.

[Garion_55]

6. no formal decision correct.

just a gut feeling from everything im seeing reading and hearing. with some common sense tossed in.

hoping im wrong, would love to see the finals, watch the lakers vs clippers. who comes out of the east.

but with every day that goes by with no solution to the testing problem and with no desire for trump to give a fuck, plus with how long these players have been not playing, getting out of NBA shape, and having to get back into shape if the games resume, the odds are getting slimmer and slimmer we see NBA this year.

[Renew Deal]

8. I think there is a way to do it and crown a credible champion.

And it could be done in under a month with games almost every day.

30 teams. 5 groups of 6. Each team plays each team once. 5 games per team.

All 30 teams are seeded and make the knockout rounds. It will take 5 rounds to crown a champion. Every team guaranteed 6 games.

They could do other things too like reduce the game day roster to 10. Reduce the time to 11 or 10 mins to make up for the reduced roster. The last two guys usually don’t play in the playoffs anyway.

The entire thing will be done in a month. Half the teams are gone in 2 weeks.

Other weird things come up like Zion and Ja ready for explode onto the scene. Golden State is 15 and 50, but is healthy.

[Garion_55]

9. great idea!!

it would really suck to look in the record books 30 years from now and see champions from every year but an * for 2020

without all the travel time in between cities that normally goes on, that would reduce a lot of the time needed.

[Renew Deal]

11. I think they should crown co-champions if they don't come back

Give it to the Bucks and Lakers. It's better to be more open than closed in this situation.

The NHL has a similar problem to the NBA, but it's harder to find ice than courts. They can give it to the Bruins and move on...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Among the ultimate outcomes of this Corona Virus is going to be

what happens with professional sports.

I happen to be one of those who is largely indifferent, although I will admit to paying attention to my favorite home town teams on occasion.

But I'm not the fan that matters. I can only ask the question. If the MLB. the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, do not happen for a year, maybe more, what will be the end result? Will baseball or football or basketball or hockey at the professional level cease to exist? One part of me says, oh, no, they will still be around, and another part says, Yep, they're gone.

Since I am so genuinely ignorant about pro sports I will not make a prediction. Other than, it's possible they'll be vastly changed. Which really isn't much of a prediction at all, so as Roseanne Rosanneadanna would say, Never Mind.

[MerryBlooms]

12. We can't get testing for 100 Senators, staff, etc..., but they have testing for

hundreds of basketball players, staff, etc... ? Something smells rotten in DC.

[bluedigger]

13. LeBron Wants the NBA to Resume--but No One Knows When or How to Do That

Friday marks 51 days since the last time NBA players took the court for a game—just under two months since Rudy Gobert’s positive test put the league on ice and helped hasten the ostensible lockdown of American public life. As the days drag on, and as the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount, with more than 1 million cases now confirmed in the United States and more than 63,000 dead, the question in many minds has shifted from when the 2019-20 NBA season will resume to whether it will at all—and, in some, whether it should.

CNBC’s Jabari Young reported Thursday that a number of team executives and player agents, “frustrated with the lack of information from the league” about the status of efforts to resume play, are “pushing for an outright cancellation of the season” so everyone can focus on safely preparing for the 2020-21 campaign. Young’s sources suggest that some owners “have no desire to return” for the balance of a season that might have to be played without fans in the stands—and, thus, without the gate and concession revenue they’d generate to defray the costs of relaunching operations.


Some player representatives aired concerns about the uncertain league calendar and how it will impact players’ financial futures—whether the guarantee dates in their contracts remain the same, how free agency might be impacted, whether another pay cut might be in the offing—and, naturally, about the difficulty of ensuring safety in a sport where you can’t exactly practice social distancing. “I’m surprised, because [NBA commissioner Adam Silver] always errs on the side of caution and doing what’s right,” one anonymous agent told Young.


Whether something looks right can depend an awful lot on where you’re sitting, though. And from where LeBron James is sitting—playing at a remarkable level at age 35, with his Lakers atop the Western Conference standings when play was suspended, and having a real chance to make a run at his fourth ring—canceling the season looks quite a bit less appealing.

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2020/5/1/21243895/nba-coronavirus-lebron-james-adam-silver-update