OT Reports: Practices Could Restart In June With Games In July At Centralized Location

I recently received this in an e-mail from the Blazers:

https://www.nba.com/blazers/forward...tNVdtUVdGWjQxOGhJYlV0a3UzM1p0cm8yVkNTdUIifQ==

 

So would Nurkic and Zach be ready to go by mid-July? That might be a game changer.

 

Yes. Nurk was ready to play in the Memphis game, which would have been the next game the Blazers played. Collins was likely due back by April.

 

Thanks for the correction. Nurk fever should be a thing in July.

 

Yes, I think they're both ready now.

 

I think this will likely fail. All it would take is one player, coach, official, or staff to have Covid and spread it. And it isn't just direct vectors either. All those players/coaches etc. will have be lodged in a central location(s), so that brings in hundreds of hotel workers into the mix. And everybody will have to eat...that's hundreds more staff.

and I'm assuming there will be near daily testing...?...at a time when testing is a continued massive issue. Maybe tests should be reserved for people with need instead of investing them on NBA players and coaches. The NBA should just 'admit' last season is toast; and start worrying about next season.

I'd also wonder about a July continuation when dozens of players end their contracts in June.

 

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...ting-Season-At-Walt-Disney-World-In-Late-July

I'm wrong plenty, but I predicted this, it's happening, and it's not surprising at all.

Disney's money project, Mulan, was rescheduled to be released July 24th, 2020. They think people will flock back to theaters by then - in fact they predicted it in mid-April. I wouldn't be surprised if they helped make it happen.

If I'm the NBA, I have plans for special products to be released BEFORE the season continues in July.

 

I've thought the same.

However if I was running the NBA I would pay to develope a couple million tests and donate them first. Then the tens of thousands of tests the NBA uses could be spun as a way to provide revenue for that donation.

"The NBA return is helping fight the pandemic."

 

I guess you haven't heard about some states having a surplus of testing because not enough people are getting tested? Capacity should improve even more by then.

What the NBA should do is contribute as many tests as they use. If they return, they'll have the financial ability to do so.

 

I didnt read this post before my previous one. Agree 100%.

 

I've heard that, and I've also heard it's basically bullshit, as so many stories about PPE and testing capacity turn out to be. There may be small surpluses of serological in a few counties scattered around the country. But those tests only account for the presence of anti-bodies which are produced after the virus has progressed in the body. People can be in the early stages of Covid, be infectious, and still not be producing enough anti-bodies to register in the test. And serological tests have a high false-positive and high false-negative incidence rate

what the NBA would need is molecular tests and there is still a major shortage of those

 

Yeah I don't know I haven't really looked into it. Either way, if the NBA uses the income they gain from returning to help the country with testing more than they're taking away from it, I see that as a good thing all-around.

 

“Do you guys want to get paid and extend your contract an extra month or two?”

For some reason I don’t think that’ll be a tough sell considering they’re already missing game checks.

The rest I agree with.

Probably do what the UFC did on a larger scale.

 

And if GS is also in a tourney wild card spot, they'd get back Steph/Klay/Draymond. Also a potential game changer