I don't think there is any way the upcoming season starts in 2020. Adam Silver has already said that their previous planned start date has been pushed back indefinitely and I don't think the NBA can function as a business model without every seat being available in every arena... I just don't think it works unless every player is willing to make their guaranteed contracts null and void, which I sincerely doubt they would do. I really don't know what the solution is but I don't think they will come up with it and enact it before the end of the year.
A sprain to the outside ligament. No surgery required. 4-8 weeks of rest I believe.
Will they increase ticket prices with fewer fans in arena?
Wont need it I just got the new vaccine at Riteaid.
So, as far as the start goes, a whole bunch of opinions and basically no facts. Situation normal for S2.
I don't know if the players with guaranteed contracts will agree to play 82 games for less than the 90% they are guaranteed. The NBA has the right to withhold 10% in case league revenue doesn't measure up but when these contracts were signed that is all that was negotiated as insurance for the owners. If the league is only getting half of their normal live fan attendance revenue (and that won't be socially distanced, 1/4 attendance would be more likely to meet social distancing) they would lose 20% of league revenue... so the 10% they are allowed to withhold won't come close to making up the difference... they'd be billions apart and I just don't see the players giving up what has already been legally agreed to and binding. The owners can rip up the CBA but they can't rip up the contracts... I think they'd have to declare bankruptcy to get out of paying existing guaranteed contracts.
Players aren't going to like some thing and owners wont like others. Players will also have different groups, guys on contracts vs free agents. We might see sides threaten to not play or cancel the season. Ultimately I dont think things get delayed too many months as those sides get desperate when $0 is coming in and demands will change. Who knows though, we will see.
Then Silver is just posturing when he says he won't start the season without fans or do you think 1/4 of the fans will make it worth it? Again, as a union I don't think the players can afford to go the way of the NFL and just allow their contracts to be negated... it sets a dangerous precedent. Maybe I'm wrong and the players say, "Just this one time, for this season only, you can not pay us what you are legally bound to pay us but play us all 82 games and we'll do that for the good of the league." That just doesn't sound like a plausible thing to me but who knows.
If this is true, will you buy my family Christmas presents?
I really don't see it at all. Cutting it down to 25% still means thousands of people indoors together. According to every guideline and study that I've seen that sort of thing is considered a super spreader. I don't see the league having fans in attendance until there is a vaccine and it is administered to almost everyone, especially everyone who is high risk. I don't see that being done any time soon. It's just too big of a risk for the league and individual teams to take. No one wants to have the blood of dead fans on their hands because sports were more important than human life. I understand that you are high-risk and that deters you from wanting to attend but anyone that does attend and is infected then becomes someone that could unknowingly spread the virus to you and other high-risk people. Then you have Adam Silver saying that he doesn't want to start the next season until there can be fans. It's all a lot to try to wrap my head around.
I think you may be right but I don't think fans will be in attendance if games start that soon. They'll figure something out like the multiple mini bubbles idea and get things going again but both sides are going to have to make some very financially painful concessions. The alternative though is to have zero income and I just don't think that makes sense for either side. The thing I wonder about is how the negotiations will go. Do they end up with a season to season CBA until this virus/disease achieves some sort of herd immunity? What is the revenue split going to look like that will allow both sides to fulfill already existing unavoidable financial obligations? Many games have been lost to work stoppage in this league and others in far far more hospitable environments for negotiations. We'll just see how things go.
They should play a whole season imo. I guess for most their job isn't essential as most a millionaires. I was with my wife yesterday at Coscto than I dragged her to Home Depot and both places were packed out.
