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Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[bodiddley]

I'd be interested in hearing about how much money is at stake per televised game and/or televised playoff game.  Players stand to lose up to 20% of salaries, since they played roughly 80% of the games.  Though I doubt the NAB would withhold the full amount if the season and playoffs were canceled.

[facilitatorn]

The NBA should call the season. Then they should host a telethon & auction to raise money for frontline worker relief. Who ever the highest bidder is gets the Larry O this year.

It lets the league get on with its bookkeeping and things like free agency and the draft while the NFL figures out first hand the dos and don'ts of sport league reopening.

They can cancel what’s left of the season to honor the fallen and the still falling in the struggle to contain the pandemic. 

[kiidcarter8]

I think NBA owners have done enough donating - and have lost millions

[facilitatorn]

Only a fucking piss pot holder would be worrying about the owners.

The auction should be open to all comers, in or out of the league. Out of anyone who wants to play whoever is willing and able to do the most for front line workers on that night will have the trophy and get to award it on court to the next competitive champion when one prevails after play resumes.

[carlos123]

Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the league office informed Board of Governors that July 31 is a target date for return of season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
3:06 PM · May 29, 2020

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
As hard as owners and teams are pushing for proposals rooted in some level of self-interest, there's still a sense they'll give Silver the latitude to implement the plan that he lands on with the NBPA. Most expect that'll come inside the next week.
2:34 PM · May 29, 2020

[Kam]

If you accept the premise that they’re gonna plough through with 500 personnel and continue to play on in the event 1 of those 500 tests positive....

Then what’s the difference with 800?  Playoff series or regular season what’s the difference?
Only the most optimistic person would cross their fingers that a playoff only 500 league will have zero chance of covid.

Once you accept the risk to 500 and accept that positive tests will occur and play will continue ...


If the priority is crowning a champ (with or without resumption of the regular season) then you’re accepting the risk and admitting safety isn’t the priority.


If safety is the priority then cancel the season.

You can’t have it both ways.

[facilitatorn]

That’s the core of it. That the abyss they’re all looking down right now as they try to make up their minds.

[bodiddley]

Safety isn't all or nothing.
If you can't achieve 100% safety (you can't) then you don't just give up.
There are degrees of safety, and levels of risk.
Minimize risks, increase safety factors.

Probably the quarantining prior to the restart will be the key step. Then limiting outside and inter-team contacts.

Just like you don't reopen the economy in full, but you (should) reopen carefully with masks and social distancing, while large gatherings are excluded.

[facilitatorn]

If you restricted participation on any level to those negative for live virus and positive for immune response, implying those who’ve had it and recovered, assuming you can round up some resonantly to very accurate test for those things, would by some accounts be about as safe as you could get.

[bodiddley]

Not clear if one can get re-infected or not. 
Or how long any acquired immunity lasts.

[facilitatorn]

There are enough unknowns at this stage that, were it up to me, I’d scratch the remainder of the season. I’ve made that clear already.

It will ultimately come down to who’s got how much money at stake on whether or not more games get played.

[facilitatorn]

Luke Garza might make an interesting backup to Mitch. He’d provide a radical change of pace and style.

If we grab one of the three top guards, Ball, Hayes, and Edwards, Or even Haliburton With the lotto pick, I’d favor grabbing Garza and Killian Tille with the other two picks further down the draft.

[kiidcarter8]

Tillie has had injury woes.  Could be a UFA

Speaking of drafts - just hearing MLB has slated theirs for June 9-10 (or is it 10-11)

They are slimming down from 40 rounds to FIVE.  All players not drafted can sign for a max bonus of 20K.

Owners saving a bundle.

NBA is no draft bonuses right?  Just salary?

[facilitatorn]

No signing bonus in NBA, a trade off for the security of getting paid after being cut, and to keep cap calculations on the pre-doctoral level of mathematical difficulty, so they don’t have to do it all on napkins in bistros.

If we get Tille as a UDFA that would be awesome. Worth the gamble on health.

[FWK00]

see: andrew mercado on facebook,

A vet documenting the Minnesota peaceful protests - usually in realtime

Good stuff