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I wonder how this would work in terms of ratings, attendance, etc. I have no idea if it would be better or worse for these things to have games in July/August when it's school break/people on vacations/etc. Also wouldn't compete with hockey though so arena's might be easier to book, and they'd only have baseball to compete with. They'd also avoid competing with NFL/NCAA in November/December I guess? Would be interesting.
Great players love to play with other great players. It's almost impossible to win a championship without that (hello, defending champs)Jordan played with an all-time great and the best rebounder/defender of that era.
I think the biggest danger like you said is ratings. The NBA's audience is eons younger (avg age 42) than NFL (50) or MLB (57). That's not the audience you want if your league is going to play its season through the summer.
True. But I wonder if not competing with Football in Nov/Dec and with Hockey during playoffs would counter-balance that enough?
Hockey not really too much, but during playoffs with games going simultaneously, ratings would for sure be better if there was no hockey playoffs on the same night. Really curious how July playoffs would do for ratings over June's when there's other sports playoffs going on too.
I guess. But they were basically out of the playoff hunt anyways. I'm not sure how pay is going to work, but if it's the same, wouldn't you rather not play if you could still collect the checks and if you had no shot at playoffs?
I'm sure 8 games of experience isn't that big of a deal. Definitely wouldn't say 8 games of experience 'really sucks'.
To be fair, the Bulls haven't played meaningful basketball in years.
Quicker the better.
Why would any of the teams out of playoff contention even want to play? Lillard already said he wouldn't, and I think a lot of other players would follow suit. Would damage the product and then teams getting to play these shells of teams would have a huge advantage. This keeps only the teams alive in the hunt playing.
They need time to train.
And we need to see who got fat.Long Ball Larry said:
Offering us the two worst candidates in history for the second straight election?modogg said:
Luka's trainer seemed to imply that he has turned into the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man during the hiatus.
"I'm not going to play even if we play, but I DEFINITELY don't think we should play." :stompsfoot: Loser. He should join MLB.
And also if we do play, I’m not going to play, but I will be entering the bubble because we totally need more extraneous people in there
Enjoy him Brooklyn.
I believe so. There is an overall reduction to the total amount of money that will be paid to the players, but I'm pretty sure that everyone still gets paid the same proportion.
You would hope so. Everyone saw how NOT smoothing the cap went in the 2016 off-season and the resulting mess. Watching a single year of ridiculous player contracts followed by years of other free agents getting squeezed should be enough of an impetus to work something out this time around.
The players that don't feel the NBA season should continue don't have much of a leg to stand on. They can opt out for any reason they deem appropriate.
He’s a replacement player and I assume no guaranteed money next year. Not a big deal. Doubt he ever really plays.
Well, I think most players were still happy with the spike but presumably would prefer to smooth any reduction and teams would likely prefer smoothing to make cap implications easier to deal with, so it seems like they could get something done
Not sure anyone who wasn’t a 2016 free agent was happy with how that worked out.
Some were annoyed at the time, but I doubt they would use it as a reason not to smooth downward. Also, getting the cap and % of cap and slotted contracts up ASAP probably helped everyone ultimately
