Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

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

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/23/tennis/novak-djokovic-coronavirus-adria-tour-spt-intl/index.html

what a maroon

we can use our minds to purify water and change molecules

might get into the occult link plz

you dont need a britta just pour the water in your ear

what a maroon
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Video has emerged of Novak Djokovic dancing in a club during a tournament he held as the #coronavirus pandemic swept the globe.

Today the tennis star confirmed he has tested positive for #COVID19, and admitted the event was held "too soon".

Read more: https://t.co/CnBeFvSfob pic.twitter.com/MJRTNr1XnJ

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) June 23, 2020

how low can you go

I was suicidally depressed after federer blew those match points at wimbledon last year and to see Djokovic insert himself into the plague narrative like this is really surreal

Would Djokovic even make 50% of his free throws? If not, then he can go to hell. I don't care.

djokovic is the absolute worst.

Fuck djokovic; <3 rafa4ever.

At forefront of Bradley’s decision to remain w/ his family is the well-being of the oldest of his 3 children. His 6-year old son has a history of struggling to recover from respiratory illnesses and would’ve been unlikely to be medically cleared to enter bubble with his family. https://t.co/yputDg2VJp

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 24, 2020

yeah Trevor Arica sitting it out to deal with a custody battle, so far I can’t believe find the slightest blame on anyone skeptical about this plan (except kyrie)

yeah hard to have too much confidence in it

The @Lakers losing Avery Bradley is a tough loss and will make it more difficult for them to win the NBA championship.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) June 24, 2020

Heard the other day that Djokovic is an anti-vaxxer

xp hot take!

xp yeah him and his wife are