Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

Prior to tip-off as the game was delayed, Chris Paul ran over to the Utah bench and said “what’s wrong with Rudy?” and they all yelled for him to get away. Now all the players are quarantined in their locker rooms, being tested for the virus.

— Royce Young (@royceyoung) March 12, 2020

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!??

Yeah, suspending play until they can get a reasonable plan in place was pretty much the only choice the league had. I'm sure the player's union will want some input on this, too. I'd say it will be a week of suspension at the absolute minimum, and possibly the season and playoffs cancelled at the maximum. It could even be both, sequentially, as the games come back briefly, then it becomes untenable. Fuck. Yet another piece of our 'happy place' gone to shit.

Goddamn looks like I’m gonna have to find a bunch of shit to binge watch now. What are the kids into now? The Outsider?

the season is no longer regular nor degular

mods

irregular iddegular

got me shook now

i think they could probably rebound quickly with a plan to play all games in empty arenas except for the fact that the entire utah jazz team probably now has it?

just DQ the jazz who cares about that team

oh yeah, i'm 100% on board with that

ahhh lol

Look up Dr Sebi my friends https://t.co/C3D6YOH6xx

— Rudy Gobert (@rudygobert27) April 1, 2019

for chrissakes

dolan, excellent

NBA owners discussed this possibility on a call earlier today; at that point they were weighing games without fans vs suspending the season. According to @WojESPN, only the Knicks wanted to do neither, advocating business as usual until ordered to do differently by the govt. https://t.co/2vmI5Msp40

— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) March 12, 2020

Boban leaving it all out there on the court.

dolan as usual with the cleareyed approach to things

surreal

in what could possibly be Vince Carter’s final moment as an NBA player, he enters game in final seconds and drills 3. pic.twitter.com/g2qiIZMkhb

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 12, 2020

Past two weeks the jazz have been in NYC, Cleveland, Boston, and Detroit.

How many clubs did they go to?

yeah this shit is already everywhere cmon

doris burke and ryan ruocco did a really nice job with a difficult broadcast in dallas

pro athletes will prob all be asymptomatic anyway

Don’t even get to say a proper goodbye to Zion!

seems like just yesterday when lebron said he'd be willing to 'listen' if the league took measures

You mock the corona in public, you get it. It’s a new rule.

All 30 NBA teams can be connected in just the last 5 days.

The NBA made the right decision to suspend this season. pic.twitter.com/jUy3X5zwTj

— StatMuse (@statmuse) March 12, 2020

OK so Fred Hoiberg maybe has coronavirus — quarantined one a hospital while the Nebraska players are quarantined in their locker room awaiting his test results...

He was coaching entire game looking like he was at deaths door

People aren’t smart

Could just be a nasty flu but...

Shouldn't be around ppl w a flu either

hoiberg? who he coach for?

oh not the nba haha

I keep letting myself get mad about that Gobert press conference clip

It’s just unbelievable. The most surreal thing that’s happened during this.

Probably life/career-altering for him.

A really big charitable contribution would help a lot

Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, league sources tell ESPN. Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings. Now a Jazz teammate has tested positive.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 12, 2020

Yeah he’s fucked

christ

wow

rudy thought he was cute

Mudiay has it too?

Apparently Gobert looked clearly sick in their last game

great

not great

irregular degular

We got a full Boban Game and Vince hit the last shot of his career, pretty cool

neat how the jazz were able to get access to 58 tests

First Take is wall to wall Rudy Gobert

am I being crazy for thinking the league should seriously consider suspending him for the rest of the season, assuming play does resume? I imagine that could stir up shit with the players union though.