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Financial ramifications of no fans

oneye

oneye

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This could potentially really really suck. I hope we can get back to some semblance of normal. Wonder how bad this will impact the Jazz and other small markets. **** Covid 19

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I thought I read somewhere that the Jazz needed to advance to the 2nd round to show a profit and that included ticket and parking receipts. No ticket and parking receipts is a lot of money to make up.
 
homeytennis said:
I thought I read somewhere that the Jazz needed to advance to the 2nd round to show a profit and that included ticket and parking receipts. No ticket and parking receipts is a lot of money to make up.
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Teams in a trust, so they can’t bring in more investors(owners), they aren’t moving the team or selling it, so the Jazz only real option is to absorb losses or cut payroll if this ends in huge shortfalls. Also, their other income is selling cars, movie tickets, and other event tickets. LHM is bleeding money right now at every part of their business. This f**** sucks. It’s why they’re trying to push the season next year back as far as possible, because most small markets would be fine finishing this season without fans, but next season without fans? Not so much. They want fans back next season in some form bad and you can tell. Maybe not full buildings, but fans in the building next season is going to be financially necessary I think.
 
It is time to cut the season down by a dozen games anyway, eliminate back to back entirely, more rest for players, etc.

Cut the season to 72 games. 36 home and away. Play each team in your own conference 3 times, means no ties for season series, and play all teams in the other conference 2 times. Better game spacing, keeping same season time frame. But you can also condense it as needed and not have too big a disruption.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It is time to cut the season down by a dozen games anyway, eliminate back to back entirely, more rest for players, etc.

Cut the season to 72 games. 36 home and away. Play each team in your own conference 3 times, means no ties for season series, and play all teams in the other conference 2 times. Better game spacing, keeping same season time frame. But you can also condense it as needed and not have too big a disruption.
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I used to have mixed feelings about this, but I’m 100% on board with this at this point.
 
If this becomes a reality I could see the NBA team model being run more like a GLeague or Euro team model with far lower salaries and a lot fewer games.
 
Get me a hard cap, too. And more aggressive revenue sharing.

And let’s fix the Harden problem while we’re at it. Stupid ****er.
 
Avery said:
I just don’t think sports work without an audience.
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I mean, it'd be weird, but it would still work. Golf and Tennis do just fine and their audience is pretty non-essential to the sport. The only sport I think it makes a huge difference for is football.
 
NAOS said:
Get me a hard cap, too. And more aggressive revenue sharing.

And let’s fix the Harden problem while we’re at it. Stupid ****er.
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I think the players are probably really concerned about having to re-work the CBA during these circumstance, which is why you’ve kinda seen their tune change a bit in the last week when Adam Solver basically said, the current CBA isn’t designed for this and something is going to have to give.

PS, I really hope this somehow doesn’t change the timeline when Donovan will become an URFA.
 
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