NBA season 2019/20
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Season suspended, reports say.
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Yup, official. Season is supended after tonights games. Developing...
Un-friggin-real.
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New York Times:
N.B.A. Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus
The league said the suspension would begin after Wednesday night’s games.
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@barbarian I'm not suggesting anything improper, and was thinking more a family member returning from France etc.
Reading a story on ESPN Gobert's antics in the locker room have very likely led to Mitchell's positive test.
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@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:
Reading a story on ESPN Gobert's antics in the locker room have very likely led to Mitchell's positive test.
He made a few jokes about it but by the sounds of things he was largely asymptomatic. I don't think you can be too critical of him. It wasn't like he was running around the Jazz locker room coughing and sneezing all over other players.
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@gt12 said in NBA season 2019/20:
I do enjoy the Hubris of that muppet getting infected regardless. For those who didn’t see it, this was him leaving a presser before being diagnosed - touching every mic in the room.
A total knob for doing that. Maybe he got it from tapping a journalists’ microphone. That would be some comeuppance, but I wish no illness on anybody - even knobs.
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(Psst! There’s a $700K carryover at Gulfstream tomorrow...)
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I listened to a podcast this morning (The Ringer NBA Show) where they spent a good few minutes discussing the NBA's best chance at completing this season.
These guys seem to think the standings could be as they finished when the regular season was aborted (seems pretty unlikely that anything else can be done), and all play-off teams could be summoned to one or two host cities (possibly New York and Las Vegas), quarantined together, and sent out to play a finals series in July, possibly with fewer games in each series, at least until the NBA Finals. Apparently there is testing coming out which can yield a result in 5-15 minutes, so the players and officials could all be tested prior to taking the court. All seems reasonable, assuming the US gets it's outbreak relatively under control.
Imagine the drama if the Lakers took to the court vs the under .500 Grizzlies minus Lebron and AD who'd just tested positive
The other thing which leaps to mind in the highly litigious US of A, is a team just outside the 8 in either conference (most likely the West where the Blazers, Pelicans, Kings and Spurs might have fancied their chances of qualifying for the play-offs) lawyering up under the pretence that the regular season should have been played out to some further extent, such as 70 games each which would have provided the opportunity for qualification at the Grizzlies' expense.
If they plonked all teams in one locale and were prepared to extend the conclusion to the season out a little further again, getting to 70 games would be possible but would add 10-14 days.
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The Chicago Bulls look to be seriously cleaning house and making a real effort to turn things around finally - good news for them and the NBA - a good Bulls team would be a real lift to the Eastern Conference.
They've hired Denver Nuggets GM Arturas Karnisovas to run their basketball operations and have fired longtime GM Gar Forman and demoted former head of basketball ops (and former GM) John Paxson.
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@KiwiMurph Any rumour on player movement toward the Bulls? I mean aside from a high lottery pick? I like Zach Levine, but he needs two more guys of his standard for them to make a mark again.
