Sources: Expect the NBA back playing by mid/late June with 10 reg season games before POs

Nah it’s a different game outside everyone knows who plays that concrete has a different bounce/feel to the game. Along with wind, and weather variables and injury risk.

 

The Rockets should have a massive advantage here, as they are accustomed to playing in an empty lifeless arena. Their opponents will need to adjust.

 

OH hell no you didint'!!!!

 

Here's some good advice for the NBA courtesy of the EPL and it's Project Restart:



No look tackling, I guess we can do no look passing, shooting and defending when play resumes

 

LOL it doesnt have to be concrete, they can set the floor from any material they want

 

Sources: NBA superstars establish united front to resume season on private conference call

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-nb...nference-call-to-resume-season-210518262.html

Some of the NBA’s biggest superstars formed a united front to resume the 2019-20 season during a private conference call Monday, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

Toward the end of the call discussing the ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic, all parties were in agreement to take the court with proper safety measures once the league is given the green light to commence, sources said.

Chris Paul, the president of the players association, arranged the call that included LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, Stephen Curry, Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook, sources said.

The group’s decision is expected to hold significant weight in the decision-making process for the rest of the league’s players when it’s time to deliberate on whether to restart the season.


ESPN reported that players association reps began informally polling players about resuming the season.

The season has been suspended since March 11.

In a conference call with players on Friday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver stated that he couldn’t guarantee the safety of the players if play resumed in a city where they would be quarantined, but assured them the league would do everything in its power to make the safest conditions possible, sources said.

That didn’t sit well with some players, sources said, with a vaccine not expected to be available for a year or two.

The majority of players who are essentially eliminated from postseason contention would rather the league start back up with the top eight teams in each conference competing in some sort of playoff, sources said.

For some players out of the playoff picture, there’s concern a canceled season could negatively affect the next CBA, sources said.

Silver said he doesn’t have to make a decision on the season until some point in June.

 

Correct defensive stance recommended by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Spoiler

 

no James Harden ? i see what you did there CP!

 

This is how it should go:

10 games before playoff
All teams gets in
Best of 3

Of course every team has a chance to get the number #1 pick in the draft
Unfortunate the Rox would not be participating

 

The 2 worse teams of each conference can play a sudden death at the end of the season (just like MLB)

 

10 game regular season to break a sweat. All teams get in, 7 game series. You could do that pretty quickly and have a legitimate champion result. 3 months at the worst. Start the 2020-21 regular season in October.

However, hot models must be hired to sit courtside.

 

More like Mickey Mouse will be sitting with Miney Mouse on the sidelines

 

And here's an idea. Play the championship in China in front of 100,000 people in that bird nest stadium in exchange for 10year tv contract. Everyone wins, and no American fans put at risk.

 

Your post in response to @rimrocker about sports even being played during wars, and the one I quoted above, reminded me of a bit of history. It’s about Major League Baseball during WWII. Baseball during the war was a shadow of itself. In other words, not a good comparison to the present situation, where the players we’re talking about are fewer in number, sure, but the guys of the NBA, not those who played for the fans while 500 MLB players went into the service in WWII. Still, it’s a great story. One you might find interesting. Here’s a bit of it from Slate.com. More at the link: https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/b...d-series-in-hitler-youth-stadium-in-1945.html

Three Reichs, You’re Out
The amazing story of the U.S. military’s integrated “World Series” in Hitler Youth Stadium in 1945.
By ROBERT WEINTRAUB



Some 500 Major League Baseball players traded in their team uniforms for service uniforms during World War II. With so many men absent from the diamond, the sport marched on from 1942 to 1945, though it was just a shadow of the real thing—“the tall men against the fat men at the company picnic,” in sportswriter Frank Graham’s matchless phrase.

Many of the players who did join the military during the war years—especially stars like Joe DiMaggio and Stan Musial, were kept from the front lines. They played service ball in the United States and in Hawaii (then still a U.S. territory), in exhibitions that entertained the troops before they went off to war. But those without reputations to protect them, including the vast majority of minor leaguers, went off to combat.

Ad hoc games abounded among deployed servicemen (and in POW camps) during the war, but there was little formal play. That changed when the Nazis surrendered in 1945. The U.S. Army decided the best way to keep hundreds of thousands of its (restless and heavily armed) soldiers occupied was to set up, virtually overnight, a massive athletics apparatus, with intramural competition in every sport imaginable. Baseball was the most popular game among the G.I.s, and a large league was formed, with representatives from most of the divisions in the theater.

A majority of the games were played in a most unusual site—the conquered, repurposed Stadion der Hitlerjugend, the Hitler Youth Stadium in Nuremberg, home to Nazi Party rallies just a short time before. Now, the swastikas were painted over and America’s national pastime was put on display.

A team of major and minor leaguers, representing the 71st Division of Gen. George Patton’s Third Army, easily won the championship among German-based teams. It was decided that the “Red Circlers” (so-called for the distinctive patch of the unit) would play a best-of-five World Series against the best team from France to determine the champion of the European Theater of Operations (ETO).

Some 50,000 doughboys of every rank and specialty poured into Nuremberg for the opener of the ETO World Series on Sept. 3, 1945—one day after Japan surrendered to end the war. The infield was finely crushed red brick, the outfield perfectly mown green grass. German POWs had been ordered to build extra bleachers to accommodate the large crowd. A brilliant sun warmed the faces of the G.I.s. Vendors sold beer and Coke and peanuts, just like back home. The Stars and Stripes flew over the field, and a bugle corps played the national anthem before the cry of “Play ball!” Armed Forces Radio had a setup behind one dugout, transmitting the action to the boys who couldn’t be there. For those in the stands, sitting in the sun and drinking beer, this afternoon reminded them of what was soon to come—a return to their families and the simple pleasures of their favorite game.

The 71st was led by well-known players like Harry “The Hat” Walker of the St. Louis Cardinals and Ewell “The Whip” Blackwell of the Cincinnati Reds. Walker had been put in charge of the entire German-based baseball operation, and unsurprisingly had stocked his team with transfers from other units. He even commandeered a B-17 bomber, called Bottom’s Up, to ferry the teams around the country to play.

More here:
This piece has been adapted from Robert Weintraub’s book The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age, which is out today. You can view the book trailer here.

 

So we will see Harden type defense now aka social distancing defense. JK!

 

Lace em up

 

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