BREAKING NEWS: NBA suspends 2019-2020 season
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You ain't know all the players could lose 1/4 of their salary from THIS year already if those games ain't played? And plenty players gonna be free agents real damn soon.
CanesMiamiLakers
All Star
Why they trying to salvage this shyt so bad? It’s almost May they need to let it go.
jetflyinglimousineriding
Superstar
The league isn't trying to lose nearly a billion dollars from having to cancel it
They gotta just take this L like everybody else. They starting to look (more) desperate.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
I don’t mind the league trying to make contingency plans...in house. But they look stupid continuing to release statements to reporters. Now if people are leaking stuff, I guess but just stfu and release a plan when you can actually make a plan you can stick to
ALonelyDad
Veteran
This was 5 days before the Jazz game, fans should not be allowed till vaccine
I agree, EVERYBODY is taking a hit, not just them. The chances of being able to start the season back up in a month like june/july and starting up the following season within this calendar year are low, and some states seem to be dead set on not bringing sports back at all this year which limits your venues.
I think this is the longest these players have lived consecutively in the city they play for. Like giannis in milwaukee
Not to trivialize their deaths or the possible risk of corona virus but this is yet another example of a biased article that assumes the worst and questions very little.
For context:
I'll bet you anything they had pre-existing conditions but we can't know because the author doesn't report about it and as you can see four of them were 57+. I very much doubt it can have been clearly determined that they all died from corona virus instead of with. As the story mentions, one of the people who had been in close contact with one of the victims was diagnosed with the flu. The person who he came in contact with, 70 years old, fell ill a few days later (also consistent with the incubation period for the flu). He tested positive for corona but the article doesn't state whether they tested him for the flu.
Also, how many people do you think usually die within a few weeks after a major event with thousands in attendance during a flu season? It's important to ask just how many people of the 2800 have had corona because 5 out of 2800 is only 0.18% deaths. Obviously, most people likely did not have it but the article mentions at least a dozen other people who did have it but either only tested positive or "experienced symptoms". "Many others experienced symptoms consistent with coronavirus, but were not tested".
If only 500 out of the 2800 have had coronavirus (not an unreasonable number given the reported number of people with symptoms and as this was before serious lockdown measures) but the other 495 did not die, that would put the death rate at 1%. Similar to the flu.
Without looking into this kind of detail, this certainly is playing up the human element a whole lot while investigating the facts very little.
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
They had a house on the east coast
I was too young in 97 to know any of the trade shyt that was going on. I was like 9/10 years old. This shyt is fascinating 