Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

Barnes appears on ESPN lately?

yeah he's been on quite a bit today, both First Take and Get Up

gobert was just acting like a doofus, not intentionally trying to hurt people. he's undoubtedly going to be synonymous with a pandemic for the rest of his life.

I'm kind of over idiots putting other ppl at risk

there are bigger idiots putting more people at more risk than gobert, even if you just confine it to "things that happened last night"!

but yes, he was acting casually like a doofus. i guess there but for the grace of god? i'm terrified of being a vector for this shit.

his is probably the most high profile person at this point

I mean fine he's not Hitler but I could really give not a single solitary shit about poor Rudy Gobert

he's a dumb rich person who is already receiving the best possible medical care

he was ready to play last night...

serious question should I pick up KD in fantasy

most leagues should block transactions.

I'll be really surprised if they don't wind up canceling the entire season. I read an estimate today suggesting that the apex of the virus will be in early June.

...which means the Bucks win the title, right?? Right???

welp

The NCAA has canceled the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and March Madness.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2020

man

its one thing to cancel the tournaments but must they also cancel the madness

Ya cancel culture running amok

madness is certainly not canceled

Maybe too early... So the dubs were light years ahead to take this season off?

they shd give everyone in the league a champ ring except rudy gobert

I'm glad it was a French dude lol

they shd give everyone in the league a champ ring except rudy gobert

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:40 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

congrats to the knicks!

today we are all gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, continuing his recent string of deeply problematic and weird takes, suggested on Simmons' podcast today that NBA players could be tested daily and live in a bubble and keep the season going

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) March 13, 2020

I'll be really surprised if they don't wind up canceling the entire season. I read an estimate today suggesting that the apex of the virus will be in early June.

Like China is starting up basketball again. Will we accomplish what they have? Probably not. But who knows?

china can easily regress if they relax precautions too soon

even tho it sucks this is kinda the best time for the NBA to go away if it had to, insofar as it's close to the part of the season where everyone wants to press fast forward anyway

saw someone . . . not praising gobert's dumb ass, but grateful because his stupidity got the whole public health response going

It did feel like a Tipping Point. Talking to Strangers you got the idea that everyone thought China and Italy were Outliers. Gobert finally made them Blink.

A real six degrees of rudy gobert situation

saw someone . . . not praising gobert's dumb ass, but grateful because his stupidity got the whole public health response going

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

100% agree with this

feel like Gobert and then Tom Hanks testing positive really changed the mood

tipping point, yes. All of New York fell down the next day.

I think the immediate freak out and the clearing of the arena was a major “it’s here and right in the middle of us” moment.

"The Utah Jazz alone consumed 20 percent of Oklahoma's total stock [of tests]."

thankful for the nba's/silver's swift and decisive action. set a precedent the other less progressive leagues (*ahem* ncaa) needed to follow.

they did let the warriors play two games at oracle with a sign posted saying that attending the game could increase your risk of contracting coronavirus, and they did have owners ready to defy local gov't recommendations until a player literally tested positive right before tipoff.

yeah the NBA was pretty delinquent. not as bad as the college conferences but still pretty bad... it was very weird watching the end of the heat-hornets game knowing that the okc-jazz game had just been emergency canceled over a player related virus scare. and by some stroke of luck or power they were just able to get gobert tested before the game or else he was going to play, which would’ve been a huge disaster... to say nothing of the fact that he definitely played while being infected but asymptomatic

fair enough. im not sure a player testing positive would've convinced the nfl to cancel the season, tbh.

if this hit in, say, september/october

play through paindemic

https://theathletic.com/1671749/2020/03/13/strauss-before-the-shutdown-the-nba-prioritized-profit-over-prevention/?source=shared-article

In retrospect the idea of continuing the season was always insane. At some point a player was going to get sick and it’s a sport with a ton of personal contact.

yeah

A child in Rhode Island has tested positive for coronavirus after getting an autograph from one of the NBA players who have also contracted the virushttps://t.co/v8ntCZVRZj pic.twitter.com/6UYmsnTMkX

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 13, 2020

brilliant how the players -- even rookies -- are out here pledging money for part-time staffers while the billionaire owners do nothing

yes what shitheads

and yeah of course the nba prioritized profit first, but they did go first and honestly acted pretty quickly after the positive test. any other league would have waited until at least the next day to poll all the owners

New Orleans' Zion Williamson says he is pledging to cover the salaries for all of the Pelicans arena staff workers for the next 30 days.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 13, 2020