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How is the NBA season gonna end in August if the summer Olympics are scheduled to start in July 2021?
THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP
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dacomeup
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They’re gonna phase out sending the elite guys for the Olympics anyways I think.
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Just re-start the season in December and run it through June and it counts for 2 rings not 1.
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Majority of the Olympic team would be fishing by July anyway
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bron stans STAY rewriting history. who didn't give bron props for winning his third ring? foh
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Biggest hurdle is actually baseball.
https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/04/0...th-moving-nba-season-to-a-mid-december-start/
Cliffs:
- While the focus generally lies on the NBA’s nationally televised games on ABC, ESPN and TNT, the vast majority of games are broadcast on regional sports networks or RSN’s. The national TV contracts pull in billions of dollars to be sure, but the RSN deals make up a big portion of the television pie as well.
- When you remove games broadcast on NBATV, which usually pick up an RSN feed, the best NBA teams generally play between 20 and 30 games on national TV. That leaves over 50 games to be broadcast by the RSN. And those RSN’s pay tens of millions of dollars to do so.
- Unfortunately for the NBA, many of those RSN’s pay tens of millions to also broadcast games for the region’s MLB team as well. - All told, only eight NBA franchises don’t share an RSN with an MLB team.
- When you start talking about RSN’s choosing how to handle months of overlap, months that baseball has had to themselves for years, things get messy. Not every television provider offers the alternate channels. Some contracts have specific language on when, if and how often their games can be bumped.
- Moving the NBA calendar to run December-August vs October-June has a lot of pitfalls. It will involve negotiation between the NBA and NBPA as well. Some prominent players, like Damian Lillard, don’t like the idea of giving up the warm summer months to play basketball. You also have the challenge of attendance in arenas during the nicest parts of the year weather-wise. Some fans may not want to be inside on beautiful spring and summer evenings.
darthska
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Is that a serious question?
A LOOOTTTTT of people.
"If the Dubs were full strength..."
"Kyrie..."
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there will always be a minority of people who complains about anything and everything. the vast majority of population gave him the credit he deserved.
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seems like things are a full go huh
elpablo21
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I’m 35....
This is the feetwork I grew up on lol. It’s beautiful
Today take that step thru, add a euro, jump stop hop step side step hesi step back 3 pointer .......
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League got a lot of unwarranted flack for somehow acquiring tests when no one else could.
With testing still not widely available it'd be a bad PR move to be mass testing everyone in the league.
akajae
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bout to hit up the liquor store for this Mad Dog 20/20
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guaranteed if you tried this at your local gym, someone will call a travel on it. would yall argue if yall knew/thought yall right? not even attempt it in the first place?
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it really does. This dude Wall is a hater ever since Beal been on a kill whoever is in his way mission win or lose.
akajae
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throwback Thursday
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throwback Thursday
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New freddy figthrowback Thursday
akajae
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Freddy figside with a better phone
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Was kinda looking forward to the offseason, wanted to see how things fared contract wise for Whiteside/Drummond and what happens with Giannas/Beal
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