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NBA Target for Restart

It's a bad mistake.

Look, we as a nation (as a planet) have been going through a pandemic. We deal as best we can and if losing the ends of a hockey or basketball season is in the cards....so what? I am the biggest b-ball fan on planet Earth and do I need to see some phony ending to the 2019/2020 season? No. Silver should be presenting a plan for a proper 82 game 2020/2021 season to start as it is supposed to in October.

The 2019/2020 season is over. The NY Knicks have been legitimately crowned the 2019/2020 NBA Champions. Why does Silver want to mess with something we all have accepted? Why does he want to add another ending to a season that has already ended? Knicks beat the Hawks in the final game played in 2019/2020 season. The winner of the final game played in any major sport is always crowned the Champion of that season. The Knicks won the final game of the season. Let's now move on to next season and see if the Knicks can repeat as Champions.

This proposal to create a phony summer playoff tournament takes away from the Knicks legitimate Championship and it will delegitimize next season's champion due to a compressed season. Silver is destroying TWO seasons. Stop the nonsense. Let's start next season in October when it is supposed to and let the teams have a go at taking away the Larry O'Brien Trophy from the Knicks. Bring it on. We are ready.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
They won’t shorten 2021... just start late... later they go they better chance they can have fans again.
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This is the correct answer. A large portion of revenue, especially for small market teams, comes from fans watching in person (tickets, food, souvenirs, parking, etc.). If they can postpone the season until fans are in attendance then they are much better off doing so.
 
checkbookdoc said:
This is the correct answer. A large portion of revenue, especially for small market teams, comes from fans watching in person (tickets, food, souvenirs, parking, etc.). If they can postpone the season until fans are in attendance then they are much better off doing so.
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But does this take into account TV ratings? TV money is the real revenue for any sports league. (I don't know the NBA numbers, but I know NFL gets billions, yes, billions from the various networks.) If NBA season is now to be moved to summer months when TV ratings drop dramatically, what becomes of TV money? Why would TNT pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a product that is now delivering half the viewers?
 
homeytennis said:
According to Shams and KSL, the NBA is targeting July 31 for its restart of the season. I guess the question I have is why bother? Why not head into next season on as normal a schedule as possible.
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They're bothering because they will make a lot of money. They sell make a lot of money because millions want sports back, preferably before October.
 
I wish they would call the season but clearly the money involved will create a very weird finish to the season. My question is, how much will they lose next year by doing this strange end this season? With a late start will they still do 82 games next year? And will their overall approach cost them fans?
 
Nate505 said:
They're bothering because they will make a lot of money. They sell make a lot of money because millions want sports back, preferably before October.
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Maybe there will be some excitement from the renewal, but with no fans it will be different.
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Mexican lives matter!!!

(But according to the news... it would appear not as much as others).

Rudy says... Viv la France!
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Don’t think Mexicans are profiled, harassed, discriminated against or shot dead in the streets by those paid to serve and protect quite like Blacks are.
 
Whatever. Picking and choosing minorities is not equality that everyone is seeking.

If you make a comment and you change the race for a different race and it sounds wrong then it probably is.

Mexicans are considered to be rats that are shot at on the border. Mexican children are nabbed by border patrols and in many cases never returned to their families. Mexicans don't speak up because they are afraid of being deported. So, um, yeah. Profiled, shot dead in the desert by those paid to serve and protect... at a higher clip than Blacks. Mexican carcasses just burn up in the sun and are covered by sand. It's happened for 30 years to thousands and no one cares.
 
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