The NBA’s hiatus could extend into June as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the country, reports ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The CDC now recommends that events with 50-plus people be postponed or cancelled throughout the next eight weeks, which includes professional sports games. This timeline projects to last until mid-May at the very least.
As Wojnarowski reports, the CDC’s recommendation comes as several team executives and owners believe a mid-to-late June return is the best-case scenario for the NBA. This scenario would not include fans in attendance.
The league office has scouted possible arena dates through August, Wojnarowski notes, remaining flexible for the unknown road ahead. The NBA was the first professional sports league in America postpone its season due to coronavirus concerns after Jazz center Rudy Gobert contracted the virus last week.
Over 3,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States were reported as of Sunday night, including 68 fatalities. Donovan Mitchell and Christian Wood join Gobert as the only NBA players who have tested positive for the illness to date.
If it’s going to be going on that late, just cancel the season. It’ ridiculous to start up again in June.
Or just do playoffs with the current standings
That’s what I’m thinking. 8 tourney team playoffs consisting of best of 5. Maybe best of three in the first round and best of seven in the Finals. If it happens at all, it’ll be a quick turnaround for next season.
You got something better to do?
The obvious point is, if any NBA player gets it, they’re going to have to cancel again.
I thought Mudiay tested positive as well…it’s like everyone forgets about him when they’re listing positive tests…
“Firstly, thanks to everyone for the positive words. Yesterday I got tested for the Covid-19 virus. By God’s grace it came out negative. Despite my teammates and I taking necessary precautions, it didn’t turn out as expected.”
it was a false news report that’s been retracted
Nobody is talking about how the flu season will be winding down in a couple months. Governor DeWine talked & talked in press conferences but never pointed that out. I have read where this virus does not like warm weather like any other virus. Seems like this knowledge would help sell any societal shutdown plan.
Of course covid19 will return in another form but,
This summer the NBA should equalize the GP and start shorter playoff serieses.
As a Univ.ofDayton fan I would like to see the NCAA do that too but I doubt they will. The NCAA is weighted toward Div.3 teams and the like.
if you may allow me to offer a perspective, the things you’ve read about the virus not liking warm weather are nothing more than hopeful musings.
the virus doesn’t become less potent with warmer weather, but immune systems will operate better in warmer weather. So summer can mean the spread of the virus is slower, but not stopped. Risk is lower, but to say that the virus doesn’t like warm weather is to suggest people don’t need to be concerned with the risk, which is false.
And yes the virus will most likely have mutations and nobody knows what surprises that could be. Might be positive as with SARS, or something more like a nightmare. How everything is dealt with will largely depend on what rate of deaths occur in the next month.
Yeah, it’s 85 degrees in Thailand and they still have some cases popping up. Whether they came back from somewhere else with it or got it in the community, idk.
Thank you, probably why I’m not hearing about it. That would be diabolical of covid19 if it blazes right through the summer.
Another silver lining thought: covid19 was invented by a rogue group to try to save money for governments by reducing the elderly. Could be the Chinese, given the way their manufacturers run their workers into the ground and age them early. But, China would be a good place to start it regardless, so to blame it on eating wild bats or whatever.
Such a plan would include an inbred ramp-down of the virus after doing a certain amount of damage, and then to “fly right away over our heads” like Trump keeps saying.
But a natural mutation would be truly unpredictable.
Yeah the NBA is going striaght into the playoffs. Whoever gets the 8 seed in the west is insignificant anyway. Sorry Spurs, Pelicans and Blazer fans. We’re all making sacrafices.
I’ve suggested to many that they honestly should do a tournament style playoff make it interesting. I think they would kill it in the ratings
The offseason is way too long anyway, so they can play. Even if the season finishes in August, professional sportsmen don’t need more than a couple of weeks of light training to recover & ready for a shorter training camp & start the next season. Anyway in summer in nothing going on that is interesting about sports.
NBA is off, so is football & soccer, nothing to watch at all.
You guys are all dreaming. The season is cooked.
Raptors defeat back to back champs?
Default ** autocorrect bs
1994 baseball season redux.