"We're going to Disney World!" NBA to resume season July 31 at WDW

Ale Xander

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Why is a neutral site like Vegas exempt from coronavirus? Just curious why that location is being floated.
It's not exempt from CV. It just relies on tourism more than others and gambling is now legal. (and has tons and tons of empty hotel rooms, by far, other than Seattle maybe, more hotel rooms than any other neutral-without NBA team-US city)
 
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Seattle would be nice. Not that I could go to any games.
It would be a nice bone to throw to a city f__ked over by the NBA.
 

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Vegas also has the arenas to make this happen with TMobile Arena, the Thomas and Mack Center, Orleans Arena, MGM Grand Arena, Mandalay Bay arena. That alone with the hotel space is the reason Vegas is probably the target place.
 

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The Simmons HORSE idea is alive per Woj:

The NBA and ESPN are working on televising a H-O-R-S-E competition involving several high-profile players, sources say. Players would shoot in isolation – presumably in home gyms – and match shots against competitors. Details are still being finalized.
 

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The Simmons HORSE idea is alive per Woj:

The NBA and ESPN are working on televising a H-O-R-S-E competition involving several high-profile players, sources say. Players would shoot in isolation – presumably in home gyms – and match shots against competitors. Details are still being finalized.
Ben Simmons would suck at HORSE
 

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Ben Simmons would suck at HORSE
All non-shotmakers will suck at HORSE. Simmons is a great distributor and finisher......but his game doesn't figure to do well in a game of HORSE. As far as our guys go, both Tatum and Jaylen have all the skills necessary to excel in this game.
 

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I bet there is some bench guy who is unbelievably good at HORSE. Like Patty Mills or Emmanuel Mudiay.
 

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I bet there is some bench guy who is unbelievably good at HORSE. Like Patty Mills or Emmanuel Mudiay.
Will be interesting to see how many players they include and if they stick to just BIG names. It's a shooting game so probably Steph's to lose ultimately but we know Marcus is well-versed in all kinds of trick shots and surely there are others like him.
 

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I miss it so much I don’t even care about the results. I mean, yes, of course I want the Celtics to win and Lakers to lose but, shit, I miss every goddamn part of it.
OUtside of this ending well for everybody and the celtics continuing on an wining the title. My #2 wish is, if the season has to end, that Anthony Davis decides to leave LA :). /SPITE.
 

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All non-shotmakers will suck at HORSE. Simmons is a great distributor and finisher......but his game doesn't figure to do well in a game of HORSE. As far as our guys go, both Tatum and Jaylen have all the skills necessary to excel in this game.
Remember that non-shotmaker Rondo was very good at HORSE finishing in 2nd behind Durant in the 2010 Horse Challenge.
 

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Alright I'm bored.

House 1: The GOAT House, but probably not the house you would want to live in. LeBron may be cool at times, but he is definitely constantly subtweeting you and trying to ship you out to another house to get someone else. Ovi might be entertaining but his Russian quirks would irritate you after a while. Tiger is definitely the roommate who sits down next to you on the couch and doesn't say anything for 45 minutes. Trout's personality is unknown. Serena seems like the only normal one.

House 2: The strongest house for sure. Harden might be a bit of a wildcard; but he probably won't be that annoying. Worst case scenario is he just disappears for a week in his room. Federer is awesome and would be a great roommate. Don't know much about Stewart but she seems humble. Zlatan and Shaq would be amazing; super-charismatic and also not criminals and don't take themselves that seriously. The two of them together would be awesome. Just imagine saying that out loud "Yeah me and my two roommates, Shaq and Zlatan are going to play Risk later," it would amazing.

House 3: After hearing a lot of Durant podcasts, I wouldn't be that excited about living with him. He is a strange dude for sure. Mahomes seems okay but the jury is still out. Messi would be like Tiger without the sex addiction; just a blank personality. Rapinoe is definitely sucking people into tense political conversations. Wade broke Rondo's arm.

House 4: My second best choice. Doesn't have the upside of the Shaq/Zlatan house but everyone seems solid. Giannis, Judge and Djokovic all seem like cool, humble dudes and Biles is super nice. I honestly don't know that much about Crosby's personality but I haven't heard anything negative about him.

House 5: No way. We all love Brady, but he would be super anal about everything and be tough to live with. Don't know much about Bird outside that she is a couple with Rapinoe and is not related to Larry Bird, unfortunately. Mayweather is a felon and Ronaldo is a likely sex offender. I'd have to hide out in the basement with Steph.

House 6: What a disaster this place would be. Embiid is a clown and would totally be the person that makes a mess but never helps clean up. Conor is somehow a worse version of Floyd. Neymar fulfills every vain celebrity stereotype. Taurasi and Nadal would probably be cool, but no way am I living with those other three.
 

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Alright I'm bored.

House 1: The GOAT House, but probably not the house you would want to live in. LeBron may be cool at times, but he is definitely constantly subtweeting you and trying to ship you out to another house to get someone else. Ovi might be entertaining but his Russian quirks would irritate you after a while. Tiger is definitely the roommate who sits down next to you on the couch and doesn't say anything for 45 minutes. Trout's personality is unknown. Serena seems like the only normal one.

House 2: The strongest house for sure. Harden might be a bit of a wildcard; but he probably won't be that annoying. Worst case scenario is he just disappears for a week in his room. Federer is awesome and would be a great roommate. Don't know much about Stewart but she seems humble. Zlatan and Shaq would be amazing; super-charismatic and also not criminals and don't take themselves that seriously. The two of them together would be awesome. Just imagine saying that out loud "Yeah me and my two roommates, Shaq and Zlatan are going to play Risk later," it would amazing.

House 3: After hearing a lot of Durant podcasts, I wouldn't be that excited about living with him. He is a strange dude for sure. Mahomes seems okay but the jury is still out. Messi would be like Tiger without the sex addiction; just a blank personality. Rapinoe is definitely sucking people into tense political conversations. Wade broke Rondo's arm.

House 4: My second best choice. Doesn't have the upside of the Shaq/Zlatan house but everyone seems solid. Giannis, Judge and Djokovic all seem like cool, humble dudes and Biles is super nice. I honestly don't know that much about Crosby's personality but I haven't heard anything negative about him.

House 5: No way. We all love Brady, but he would be super anal about everything and be tough to live with. Don't know much about Bird outside that she is a couple with Rapinoe and is not related to Larry Bird, unfortunately. Mayweather is a felon and Ronaldo is a likely sex offender. I'd have to hide out in the basement with Steph.

House 6: What a disaster this place would be. Embiid is a clown and would totally be the person that makes a mess but never helps clean up. Conor is somehow a worse version of Floyd. Neymar fulfills every vain celebrity stereotype. Taurasi and Nadal would probably be cool, but no way am I living with those other three.
Agreed on just about every take. I might choose house 4 over 2.
 

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House 5 is going to win the game, but House 6 and House 1 will be way more fun to live in
 

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Nice if ESPN to almost come up with a list that didn’t include a multiple time domestic violence offender and a guy accused of anal rape in the past year.

Maybe the poll is just for men?
 

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Agreed on just about every take. I might choose house 4 over 2.
House 4 is definitely the choice if I was stuck on a desert island and needed to actually get stuff done. Like if I needed to build some shelter I'd rather have Giannis/Judge/Crosby helping me out than trying to get Harden/Zlatan/Shaq to do some hard labor. However, if I am in some sort of mansion setting, House 2 is the way to go. I'd play video games with Zlatan* while Shaq tells me hilarious Kobe/Laker stories.

*In his book, Zlatan talks about how he would play Halo online and talk shit to other players, and would eventually start screaming about how he was Zlatan Ibrahimovic and better than whatever 16 year old he was talking too.
 

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Alright I'm bored.

House 1: The GOAT House, but probably not the house you would want to live in. LeBron may be cool at times, but he is definitely constantly subtweeting you and trying to ship you out to another house to get someone else. Ovi might be entertaining but his Russian quirks would irritate you after a while. Tiger is definitely the roommate who sits down next to you on the couch and doesn't say anything for 45 minutes. Trout's personality is unknown. Serena seems like the only normal one.

House 2: The strongest house for sure. Harden might be a bit of a wildcard; but he probably won't be that annoying. Worst case scenario is he just disappears for a week in his room. Federer is awesome and would be a great roommate. Don't know much about Stewart but she seems humble. Zlatan and Shaq would be amazing; super-charismatic and also not criminals and don't take themselves that seriously. The two of them together would be awesome. Just imagine saying that out loud "Yeah me and my two roommates, Shaq and Zlatan are going to play Risk later," it would amazing.

House 3: After hearing a lot of Durant podcasts, I wouldn't be that excited about living with him. He is a strange dude for sure. Mahomes seems okay but the jury is still out. Messi would be like Tiger without the sex addiction; just a blank personality. Rapinoe is definitely sucking people into tense political conversations. Wade broke Rondo's arm.

House 4: My second best choice. Doesn't have the upside of the Shaq/Zlatan house but everyone seems solid. Giannis, Judge and Djokovic all seem like cool, humble dudes and Biles is super nice. I honestly don't know that much about Crosby's personality but I haven't heard anything negative about him.

House 5: No way. We all love Brady, but he would be super anal about everything and be tough to live with. Don't know much about Bird outside that she is a couple with Rapinoe and is not related to Larry Bird, unfortunately. Mayweather is a felon and Ronaldo is a likely sex offender. I'd have to hide out in the basement with Steph.

House 6: What a disaster this place would be. Embiid is a clown and would totally be the person that makes a mess but never helps clean up. Conor is somehow a worse version of Floyd. Neymar fulfills every vain celebrity stereotype. Taurasi and Nadal would probably be cool, but no way am I living with those other three.
How many people on this list do you think even drink or party? Nadal has a great watch collection, so that could be fun, but Conor probably gets mad and punches you in the face if you don’t drink his shitty whisky. He likely gets good blow though. Neymar’s a club dude too. That might be the only house with some spunk, but Conor is a shitty human.
 

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Just saw the above houses, but holy crap House 6 would be entertaining as hell. Between the red-ass fiery attitude of Nadal and Taurasi, then you have Embiid being passive-aggressive and jokey, then McGregor just breaking every house rule as well as every lamp in the house when practicing kicks. Not an expert on Neymar, but he's probably the guy that just stirs the pot during arguments.
 

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ESPN reporting that the NBA is still paying players, and plans to cut checks that are due on April 15. Which I assume means the owners think that there’s still a material chance play will resume.
 

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Woj: look for the draft to be moved back:
Reporting with
@DraftExpress: As information gathering on draft-eligible prospects remains limited in a pandemic, many NBA teams are united in hopes of encouraging the league office to push the date of the June 25 draft until no sooner than August 1. Story soon on ESPN.
 

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ESPN reporting that the NBA is still paying players, and plans to cut checks that are due on April 15. Which I assume means the owners think that there’s still a material chance play will resume.
Wait....whaaaa?
 

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The NBA has a 25-day plan for return to action:

The NBA may not know when — or if — play will resume this season, but the league reportedly has a plan to get players into game shape and onto the court should that day come.

According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on Sunday, the league has a “25-day plan” that would kick in after the league sets a return date from the coronavirus-induced layoff and would conclude with players ready to play regular-season games again.

“They’re spending a lot of time getting a back-to-basketball plan ready,” Windhorst said during a TV interview of what league officials have been working on in recent days.

“What they’re looking at is a 25-day return-to-basketball window,” he continued. .”.. An 11-day series of individual workouts, where there’d be social distancing for a period of time, and then hopefully … a 14-day training camp.”

The NBA halted its regular season on March 11. Commissioner Adam Silver has previously said the league doesn’t plan to make any decisions regarding the calendar until at least May 1.

The regular season had about a month remaining when it was suspended, and the playoffs typically take about two months to complete. The 2020-21 regular season typically would begin in October, although Silver acknowledged that could be affected as well.
 

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Reinsdorf pulls the trigger - Bulls hire Arturas Karnisova from the Nuggets as EVP. Paxton moves into advisory role, Foreman fired. This was a looooong time coming, was starting to think it never would happen.


 

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The NBA has a 25-day plan for return to action:
Let's assume this does happen (highly highly skeptical). This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The normal length of a pre-season training camp is about 18-19 days which is broken up by 4-6 exhibition games (I forget the exact number) so instead of having 12-14 pre-season practices they are going to have 11 individual workout days than ANOTHER 14 days of practice? Totally bizarre from my seat.
 

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Let's assume this does happen (highly highly skeptical). This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The normal length of a pre-season training camp is about 18-19 days which is broken up by 4-6 exhibition games (I forget the exact number) so instead of having 12-14 pre-season practices they are going to have 11 individual workout days than ANOTHER 14 days of practice? Totally bizarre from my seat.
It is strange. Honestly, as much as i love the NBA. If they're playing this season games in like July or August, what's the point?

They should just scrap this season and plan for next already.
 

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Any future Xmas. Ever.
Reminds me of the joke my brother always tells when the early Xmas decorations come up in November: "Man, these Christmas decorations come up earlier and earlier ... in fact. these ones are for NEXT Christmas!"
 

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It is strange. Honestly, as much as i love the NBA. If they're playing this season games in like July or August, what's the point?

They should just scrap this season and plan for next already.
This is where I'm at.
It kind of brings up the larger question of what defines a season. Obviously baseball played like 120 games in 1994 and never finished that season. I forget when in the offseason they reached an agreement on the CBA.

Finishing in July or August would only be 1-2 months later than usual. Under that scenario, I could buy finishing the season.

But we if we are talking Thanksgiving then it needs to be a new season.

Not sure where I would place the cutoff though. Maybe end of August?
 

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I forget when in the offseason they reached an agreement on the CBA.
They didn't; the strike didn't end until April 2, 1995. They played 144 games in 1995, but since it was nearly a full season and there was a postseason, I think of it as a full season. One might do a little prorating for statistical analysis, but as far as being considered a "Championship season," I think 1995 was. 1994 had no Championship, though, so...

At this point, I find I hard to believe there will be an NBA postseason for '19-'20, so it feels like 1994 MLB to me. I was really looking forward to seeing if the C's could peak at the right time, too.
 

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They didn't; the strike didn't end until April 2, 1995. They played 144 games in 1995, but since it was nearly a full season and there was a postseason, I think of it as a full season. One might do a little prorating for statistical analysis, but as far as being considered a "Championship season," I think 1995 was. 1994 had no Championship, though, so...

At this point, I find I hard to believe there will be an NBA postseason for '19-'20, so it feels like 1994 MLB to me. I was really looking forward to seeing if the C's could peak at the right time, too.
Thanks. Obviously this is unprecedented. Not sure how I feel about re-starting a season with say a 2-3 month hiatus. Doesn’t really feel right.
 

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Let's assume this does happen (highly highly skeptical). This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The normal length of a pre-season training camp is about 18-19 days which is broken up by 4-6 exhibition games (I forget the exact number) so instead of having 12-14 pre-season practices they are going to have 11 individual workout days than ANOTHER 14 days of practice? Totally bizarre from my seat.
The players will likely be in less shape than they usually are when they start training camp. Seriously, everyone is essentially at home. They may be able to sneak a few random sessions in a gym from time to time, but even that is going to be less than what these players are used to. So, I'm assuming the 11 days followed by the 14 days is to get the players back in to some semblance of game shape so they do not get hurt. It also acts as a trial to see if they can actually pull something like this off; if a player is going to test positive, it will probably happen during that 25-day period. If that happens, it's probably cheaper to cancel everything at that point than after having played a portion of the playoffs.

I'm taking your side of the bet on whether they can pull it off. There's a ton of unknown unknowns still be be sorted out, IMO. But I do appreciate the out-of-box thinking going into this planning. Yeah, it's being driven by money, but there are plenty of people besides the athletes whose livelihood depends upon sporting events, and it would be nice for them to earn something. Let's not fall into the trap of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good enough.
 

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It is strange. Honestly, as much as i love the NBA. If they're playing this season games in like July or August, what's the point?

They should just scrap this season and plan for next already.
The NBA would much rather have 2 shortened seasons that have an NBA finals than 1 aborted season and the next being a full 82 game season.