Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

Big 3 except it's with five players and its the NBA

A one on one league would work for sure

LIST OF NBA CHAMPIONS
2015 - Golden State Warriors
2016 - Cleveland Cavaliers
2017 - Golden State Warriors
2018 - Golden State Warriors
2019 - Toronto Raptors
2020 - Boban Marjanović

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, May 28, 2020

LIST OF NBA CHAMPIONS
2015 - Golden State Warriors
2016 - Cleveland Cavaliers
2017 - Golden State Warriors
2018 - Golden State Warriors
2019 - Toronto Raptors
2020 - Boban MarjanovićJohn Wick

time to start the list of guys who are not going to play:

- bertans
- oubre, jr.

yeah if i were a guy on a contract year on one of these bubble teams and the league was all come to orlando if you feel like it id be all ehhhhhhh

Joakim Noah to the bubble!
https://sports.yahoo.com/joakim-noah-reportedly-sign-clippers-190056702.html

Kanter's dad released, hopefully he can get to america?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2896835-celtics-enes-kanter-says-father-mehmet-has-been-released-from-turkish-prison

xp so this isn't about coronavirus risk, right? you've just already played your way into a good contract and now have an excuse that allows you to shed risk of a typical basketball injury in remaining games?

Probably both

apparently bertans has twice torn an ACL, you can understand it. honestly, if the season had played out normally the wizards would've had no shot at the playoffs and bertans would've shut it down at some point anyway

yup. he's going to get paid like $60 million and the only thing that could derail that is another knee injury in a game that doesn't matter.

starting to think this really isn’t gonna happen what with Florida being a cesspool and so many employees not gonna be bubbled, just way too likely a major outbreak blows up in everyone’s face

If the bubble is going to be a genuine bubble, then all the support staff like cooks and cleaning staff need to be in the bubble, too. Everyone. No exceptions. If they have more than a hundred low-paid support workers going in and out every day, regardless of such folderol as temperature checks as they report to work each day, then the whole scheme will blow up in their faces.

pretty sure Disney has already said that def isn’t happening so

i understand where comments like these come from, but i think there is a tendency to overestimate the amount of contact the players will have with the support staff, which to my understanding should be next to none.

it's not a true bubble, service staff will be coming and going

The players themselves are the most likely spreaders. They should have to wear masks while they play imo.

which I was fine with the semi-bubble thing until Florida was like 🎢 on new cases

The players will absolutely be the main spreaders. The problem is that once a player or two acquires the infection in any way, the spreading will be very hard to control. The nature of hoops is tailor made for this virus, for the same reasons that one infected person attending a choir practice is able to spread it to a couple dozen fellow choristers.

lol

Teams are interested in hiring Jason Kidd to lure Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2021, per @StevePopper pic.twitter.com/95KRXvhLAu

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) June 22, 2020

The Knicks have requested and received permission to interview the Lakers' Jason Kidd for their head coaching vacancy, @NYTSports has learned

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 22, 2020

scripted league

i think i look at the NBA right now like a lot of america, which has no right answers on how to properly balance the need to make money w/ the need to be extremely safe. and i'm talking about on the player level... i just read davis bertans is giving up $520k by sitting out in orlando. outside of a select group of very very very wealthy players, most of the NBA needs the paychecks just like wait staff at reopened restaurants, and that includes the players on teams not going who are still getting paid out for the end of the season just like everyone else. now obviously even there was a wonderful govt response for average citizens the NBA would still be trying to play bcuz it is the NBA, but if you start weighing the pros and cons of playing on an individual player level, the internal debate is pretty similar to what a lot of ppl are going thru.

and i guess players can sit out and still get paid, but there's some equilibrium needed where there are enough players (and enough of the right players) to make holding the event justifiable.

the team has the decisionmaking power to pay/not pay a player who decides to sit, right? another interesting calculation in that the wizards, for example, probably don't want to piss davis bertans off over $500k.

i feel like i read that players who choose to sit will still get paid but i could be wrong

Knicks also interviewing mike brown

mb they can get giannis and bron

Something that has to be considered rn is that the virus will likely be around next year and this is just how life is now

see you guys in 2023

the 2023 nuggets will win the nba playoffs

jokic will weigh 95 pounds by that point

Report: NBA playoff team had four positive coronavirus tests in last few weeks https://t.co/V7LprfTwlY

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 23, 2020

not gonna happen folks

yeah outlook does not seem great

since the mavericks won the last NBA game that was played, technically they are the 2020 NBA champions

has your love for luka supplanted your love for the nuggets?

no I actually forgot who won that game and I was hoping it was denver, but I looked it up and was committed to posting that joke and had to stick with it

fair lol

lol

thoughts and prayers to your son, kev

Reporting with @WindhorstESPN: Nuggets star Nikola Jokic tested positive for the coronavirus in Serbia and his return to the U.S. is temporarily delayed. He’s been asymptomatic since testing positive last week. Jokic is expected to be cleared to travel to Denver within a week.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 23, 2020

wow when he needed you most

I hate Djokovic so much

I don’t see why players getting covid outside the bubble would prevent players from going into the bubble

little honey will probably be ok. big honey I’d worry more about

Yeah asymptomatic for a week.

Main guy I’m worried about getting covid is Boban

I hate Djokovic so much

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 5:44 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that footage of him partying is wild

If you guys haven’t been following it, Djokovic’s wife posted a thing about covid being caused by 5G and Djokovic did a livestream with some quack who said we can use our minds to purify water and change molecules

thats bad

Lmao I gotta dive into this drama