NBA considering hosting all playoff games in Vegas

[SlyPokerDog]

https://www.si.com/nba/cavaliers/nba-amico/playoffs-finals-las-vegas-nba-news

The league is exploring the feasibility of holding its entire postseason in Las Vegas, sources briefed on the NBA’s thinking told SI.com. A league source told SI.com that the NBA was nowhere close to formalizing anything, but added “nothing is off the table.”

Quarantining in one location is the only solution, and Vegas is the only city the NBA is currently giving any kind of serious consideration, per an NBA source. But even that faces enormous hurdles. Thousands of players and staffers would descend on Las Vegas for an event like this. Thousands of supports staff at hotels and arenas would be needed to make it work. Not to mention broadcasters and media. Testing would have to advance significantly in the coming months. Rapid tests, like the one now being produced by Abbott Laboratories, would have to be widely available. An event that could be squeezed into a few weeks would require tens of thousands of tests.

“I think they’re turning over every rock they possibly can to play and looking at every different outcome,” Nets GM Sean Marks said.

Said Bucks GM Jon Horst, “We believe that we’re going to play and everything we’re doing every day and our communications and our preparations, everything we talk about is be prepared to play at some point and finish out the season and have a resumption.”

 

[SharpesTriumph]

So we're going to use a ton of limited testing kits so a wealthy group can play a non essential leasure activity?

Thousands are dieing; doctors and medical staff are in short supply everywhere.

What about NBA medical staff? Are they going to monitor a bunch of healthy rich people when they could instead save lives?

I just dont see this happening anything soon. I'm staring to think the season will be cancelled.

I'm not even sure about the 2020-21 season starting normally. Who wants to sit in a cramed arena with 20k people. Then you hear someone coughing behind you.

 

[BlayZa]

this is a ridiculously stupid idea.

 

[illmatic99]

This is inherently tone deaf

 

[tester551]

I personally don't see a problem with it and think they ought to do it - as long as there are the appropriate safety protocols.

This pandemic is terrible and unfortunate, but we can't all just remain couped up in our homes for the next 4-8 months. At some point we have to go back to normal life.

If the NBA essentially 'quarantines' everyone involved into 1 hotel/casino and locks down people coming/going - then I don't see any need to repeatedly test everyone.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

So we're going to use a ton of limited testing kits so a wealthy group can play a non essential leasure activity?

Thousands are dieing; doctors and medical staff are in short supply everywhere.

What about NBA medical staff? Are they going to monitor a bunch of healthy rich people when they could instead save lives?

I just dont see this happening anything soon. I'm staring to think the season will be cancelled.

I'm not even sure about the 2020-21 season starting normally. Who wants to sit in a cramed arena with 20k people. Then you hear someone coughing behind you.

It mentions testing in the post so no.

How many lives do you think the team medical staffs are going to save?

If you get it they want you to rest and take pain meds or cough syrup.

If you need a respirator is the NBA staff the type to run it?

The thousands of support staff they mention is another issue. If they can test all of those people that would help but you can't guarantee that someone can't spread this anyway.

 

[Mediocre Man]

FUCK THAT!!!!!!!


Can we maybe use those testing kits to test......you know......sick people?

Shut your shit down until it's safe.

If you are in charge of something like running the country, for example, you should do the same. SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN

 

[julius]

This such a short sighted suggestion. The NBA isn't *that* important to the country that we need to put them at risk to entertain us.

Lose the season, and prepare for next season if there is one. If they can postpone the Olympics, they can postpone/cancel this years NBA season.

 

[handiman]

Lose the season, and prepare for next season if there is one. If they can postpone the Olympics, they can postpone/cancel this years NBA season.

So, we'll have two NBA championships next year? The postponement example falls apart with any event that's held annually.

 

[julius]

So, we'll have two NBA championships next year? The postponement example falls apart with any event that's held annually.

No, I think it'll be like the 1919 Stanley cup (Spanish flu epidemic) with no winner. Or the 1904 WS (due to a grudge between the Giants owner and the commish of the AL at the time) or the 1994 WS (due to the strike).

 

[wizenheimer]

all it would take is one player, official, coach, or trainer to be infected to potentially spread the disease to everyone else. That's at least a thousand people; and support staffs and TV crews and technicians would probably make it double or triple that. And that's only part of the picture. Those 2 or 3 thousand people would be staying in hotels for weeks, putting hotel workers at risk. They'd all have to eat three meals putting food preparers at risk. How often would everybody have to be tested who had direct or even peripheral involvement with this? If you're talking 5-10,000 people and tests twice a week, in a time when accurate tests are scarce to the point of costing lives, you could be talking spending 50,000 to 100,000 tests on this circus

fuck that....just accept that the season is finished and stop with ideas for salvaging money at the risk of lives

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

NBA just looking to give LeBron his ring on the Lakers come hell or highwater.

 

[THE HCP]

If they cancel the season, I’d be SO bummed if I was a Milwaukee fan.

 

[ehizzy3]

The nba season is done

 

[tykendo]

I just don't see anyway, out side of a complete containment of the virus, and readily available successful treatment options, for this season to be completed. It's one thing to get the NBA's players & support staffs in one contained place, it's another to have ALL of the staffs of the hotels(food, cleaning, maint. hosp.) contained as well. If any of those workers go home, containment is potentially lost.