And so....it begins! NBA Season Restarts! July 30th - October 12th.

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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29143923/nba-all-player-call-set-friday-sources-say

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What's Cuban talking about?  Anyone who wants a test can get a test.  Right?

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Team by Team status on reopening Practice facilities:

 

 

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Publicly, the NBA has been vague about its plans to restart after suspending the season on March 11. There is no schedule for full teams to return to practice, nevermind to play real games. Privately, however, commissioner Adam Silver and his team in the league office have been making contingency plans for every imaginable scenario for how the coronavirus pandemic develops, according to recent conversations with sources from teams, agents, and the league. “What’s been hard for people to understand is the amount of flexibility that Adam has,” said one source with knowledge of discussions in the league office. “He doesn’t need to make a decision until he has as much information as possible based on where we are as a country and where the NBA is as a league.”

Numerous plans have been reported in recent weeks—from an 88-day schedule to complete the entire 2019-20 season to a push to cancel the season. The truth is, all of it’s a possibility; the NBA hasn’t made its plans public because everything is still on the table. Multiple sources corroborated that Silver and his team have a decision tree that will guide the NBA’s choices. The league has the ability to chop off portions of the remaining schedule depending on what happens from both a player and public health standpoint. Here’s the league’s thinking based on a variety of possible events:

• If it’s safe to do so, the league’s hope is to complete as much of the regular season and the postseason as possible, involving all 30 teams.

• If the restart of the regular season is delayed for any reason, then some number of regular-season games would be canceled.

• If the entire regular season needs to be canceled, the NBA would begin with the postseason, and only 16 teams would need to play.

• If necessary, the NBA could truncate the playoff schedule with three-game series in the early rounds, or schedule back-to-back games at any point, to swiftly conclude the playoffs.

“It’s the responsibility of the league to explore all of our options for a return to play this season,” NBA chief communications officer Mike Bass said in a statement to The Ringer when asked about Silver’s contingency plans.

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2020/5/8/21251793/nba-reopening-chatter

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MICHELE ROBERTS CAN'T remember when she first heard about the "bubble," the idea of isolating NBA players in a hotel so the league could resume its season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But she remembers her reaction to it vividly.

"When that one was first floated," said Roberts, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, "there was some consternation."

A strict bubble where players are separated from their families, and only go to and from practices and games to a hotel, might seem attractive initially, Roberts said. But to enforce it, everyone inside would likely have to submit to some level of surveillance. And to Roberts, a former public defender and trial lawyer, that was problematic from the jump.

"Are we going to arm guards around the hotel?" Roberts wondered. "That sounds like incarceration to me."

The hypothetical also didn't sit well with her constituents, the NBA's players.

If a quarantined zone guaranteed players and coaches wouldn't get COVID-19, they told her it would be worth the sacrifice of separating from family and friends for several months. But without surveillance, how could anyone guarantee the bubble was impenetrable?

What if a team staffer went to get a slice of pizza and became infected? What if an asymptomatic family member or significant other came to visit and spread the virus? If the honor code was too lax, but a police state was too draconian, what was the point of a bubble?

"So then the players were like, 'Well, I don't know that it's worth it to be away from my family for that long,'" Roberts said. "We could do all that, and then what happens when one or two or 10 players test positive after that 28-day isolation? Do we shut it down?"

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29146819/nba-facilities-reopening-season-closer

 

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29 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

what happens when one or two or 10 players test positive after that 28-day isolation? Do we shut it down?"

This is the big question.  

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27 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

This is the big question.  

Here's my theory about why the NBA is not testing players returning to practice facilities. Publicly, they are stating the optics of a sports league having access to testing during a pandemic is a nonstarter. That might be part of the reason, but I think the real reason is some players will inevitably test positive and that might spook everyone and kill any momentum of a return.

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I think there's no way that you can't test everyone before you restart the NBA. The idea of the NBA playing is even sketchier than MLB/American Football for now because of the NBA only having 15 player teams. Not that it's unlikely that they don't try, but in the case of sports with bigger teams, it makes more sense because you can isolate players with a positive test and play other players available.

Only difficulty would be if you get teams that have half their players positive, then you'd have major problems.

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On 4/26/2020 at 12:10 PM, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

They had underlying medical issues.  

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