Sources: Expect the NBA back playing by mid/late June with 10 reg season games before POs

it won't start back up this month because it wasn't the date to begin with. The end of July was. The schedule has been adjusted here and there but this is the most recent/accurate time frame

 

I don't know about that.

I don't think there is ever any evidence that rusty players get hurt more than overworked players. Injuries are just things that kind of randomly happen.

 

Looks like a perfect substitute for the mlb playoffs

 

Those guys may change their minds later on but year the Lakers would notice their absence.

 

Kyrie FlatEarth killed this thing.

 

That's not evidence though, that's just players feeling like there could be an increase of injury all while trying to seek insurance so there is incentive here for them to not even be completely honest about it. but it isn't evidence of that being true.

There was one study that I'd have to find that said it's more likely that playing too much increases injury. Which would match what coaches do nowadays by giving players rest.

Also, the standard offseason for NBA players is longer than this current break. So this belief would imply that the NBA offseason risks player injury.

 

Hard evidence? We are not debating in court.

Playing too much and playing little have resembling outcomes, but that is just an educated hunch.
(It is playing no sports for an extended time and play a heavy schedule right away - no real season begin)

There is no hard evidence because there wasn't a Coronavirus incident that was this serious, this long break paired with players not able to use the training grounds to practice is unprecedented. Period.

This is new to everyone.
Treating it as something that has happened before with old data is unwarranted.

Guys weren't allowed to hoop, play pick up games for 1 or 2 months.
Couldn't travel, couldn't see most of the non athlete friends etc.

 

It's not court but you come at my post and I'm just checking your claim that there is more of a risk with long rest.

In the end, players didn't play for like a month, they've had access to their training facilities for a while now, they will have a good 2 months or so now in their gyms. It's not 8 games before playoffs, that's not the reality, because players are training and preparing for the restart right now.

You also compared players voluntarily sitting out to players being injured which isn't even close to being the same thing.

Also, no one is saying this isn't unprecedented, I am saying that resting for a month or two before really going at it again isn't unprecedented at all because they do that literally every year.

The fact is injury is always a risk. Period. In pre-season, in playoffs, whenever anyone plays its a risk.

I think we'd all be surprised by how many guys don't hoop after the season ends and for how long. The whole reason for pre-season is to get everyone in shape, knock off rust, so on and so forth, and guys could hoop. They just had to do it privately and shame on any respectable NBA player that doesn't have a goal at home.

Truth is, the players that are dedicated been ready for this and the lazy players found excuses to not be in shape for the season...and that's just like every offseason.

 

Might disagree here, I think if you have to compare, it's like a lockout within a lockout season with extreme security measures and uncertainty involved.

Only the 'not playing part' resembles the offseason at best to be frank.

In an official offseason people could do more and they know time and venue of the new season.

Not even Silver can control the virus situation, he can only come to terms with it.

There are more dissimilarities at this point.

The playoffs if and when they take place, are going to have more serious 'early regular season' vibe, maybe just a little more competitive.

Didn't say there was more risk, that is not what I am getting at, there will be equally amount of risk and freak accidents.
GSW had 3 alone last year in the postseason.

Players are just more afraid of going hard at it, there is also the mental part of it.

 

The NBA is scheduled to return July 30, with eight regular-season games before the playoffs. It was approved 29-1 by owners and 28-0 by NBPA team reps. It's not wishful thinking, it's effectively done, and it's almost verbatim to what Cyber told us. The only difference is July rather than June, which wasn't really the point.

 

Dwight Howard may as well retire then. Because "this" problem is not getting magically solved anytime soon.

Systemic racism has existed since before the founding of the U.S. And slavery still exists even today. The 13th Amendment prohibits slavery EXCEPT for criminals. Mass Incarceration is trillion dollar business and it involves more than just the police.

War on Drugs was really a war on the Black Community, especially when crack has mandatory sentence of imprisonment while for same amount of cocaine, most likely no imprisonment at all. 100 to 1 ratio - 500 grams of cocaine has same penalty as 5 grams of crack - mandatory 5 year sentence.

U.S. has 4% of world's population but 25% of the world's incarcerated. Of the 2.3M imprisoned criminals in U.S., 40% are African American.

 

Maybe they should have done it in June. Florida's COVID19 trend is very bad.

Maybe when it finally gets hot there in August they'll bring it down.

 

Good thing they're in a bubble, then.

 

Yup. Pretty much every GSW Finals had freak accident or suspension

Draymond suspensed
Curry buttsweat hurt by Ryno
KD and Klay
Kyrie
Love
Iggy
Bogut

Let's not forget how they got to the Finals too. Freaking last seconds of game 6 in WCF and stupid PG trying to get a rebound and pulled his hamstring!!!

Every damn playoff since GSW entered the Finals 5 games have been nothing but Freak injury.

Not only did they get in because of CP3...but let's not forget Zaza on Kawhaii!

 

Oh, they moved it to New Zealand ?

I mean I guess you can hang your hat on the sanctity of the bubble membrane in the middle of a place with an escalating epidemic and without the capacity or willingness to do anything about it, entrusting yourself and your enterprise to Florida man.

What you probably should do is not hang your hat there at all. Aren't there hotels in Hawaii?

 

I'll defer to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who knows a lot more about it than I do.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...r-anthony-fauci-backs-league-plan/3183345001/

 

The Beard.

 

The state itself, and the prevailing widely accepted doctrine of etatism, is also a slavery, literal not hyperbolic. That the people are slaves to the voted laws doesnt matter and doesnt abolish the slavery.