Giannis: This will be the hardest championship you could ever win

[FTBS]

He's right. You look at all the reasons people give for why the season shouldn't go on and they are gonna have to play through/overcome all of that in addition to being stuck in a bubble and having a playoff unlike anything any of them are used to. The only advantage is not having to deal with travel. Pretty sure most guys would take traveling in place of everything else they are giving up/taking on. Not to mention that is not something they are used to.

Feels like a corny money grab

Rather they just shut down the season and wait for October to start another season

Of course it's a money grab. It's a multi-billion dollar enttity, that goes without saying.

Maybe you can provide answers for these questions, as no one else has been able/willing to:

1. How do you do the offseason coming off an imcomplete season? How do you do the draft? What the cap gonna look like?
2. What is gonna be different in 3 months that would allow them to do something other than what they are doing now?

 

[UpAndComing]

He's right. You look at all the reasons people give for why the season shouldn't go on and they are gonna have to play through/overcome all of that in addition to being stuck in a bubble and having a playoff unlike anything any of them are used to. The only advantage is not having to deal with travel. Pretty sure most guys would take traveling in place of everything else they are giving up/taking on. Not to mention that is something they are used to.



Of course it's a money grab. It's a multi-billion dollar enttity, that goes without saying.

Maybe you can provide answers for these questions, as no one else has been able/willing to:

1. How do you do the offseason coming off an imcomplete season? How do you do the draft? What the cap gonna look like?
2. What is gonna be different in 3 months that would allow them to do something other than what they are doing now?

1. You can still start the season in October with this much layoff. I would have a longer preseason

2. The draft is not effected. It's just 18/19 yr olds being assigned to a team

3. 3 months would be different in that they would have enough time to plan and put in all the safety protocols to have a function season. That's what a "billion dollar entity" should be doing

 

[FTBS]

1. You can still start the season in October with this much layoff. I would have a longer preseason

2. The draft is not effected. It's just 18/19 yr olds being assigned to a team

3. 3 months would be different in that they would have enough time to plan and put in all the safety protocols to have a function season. That's what a "billion dollar entity" should be doing

1. Why did they have the layoff? Why are people suggesting they shouldn't even be playing now? Will that all be gone in 3 months?
2. The draft order is based on the previous season. The lottery is based on who misses the playoffs. If there are no playoffs then what? The cap is already gonna drop. You cancel the rest of the season it's dropping even more. That will impact FA. You will mess around and have teams that were projected to have cap room actually end up over the cap. There is a lot that comes with cancelling a season. A lot of it bleeds over into the next seaso.
3. That's what they have been doing the last 4 months and this is what they have come up with. What basis do we have to suggest that there will be a better option in 3 months, when flu season kicks off mind you?

 

[Ukbrotha]

The desperation to put an asterix on titles has always been laughable.

 

[UpAndComing]

1. Why did they have the layoff? Why are people suggesting they shouldn't even be playing now? Will that all be gone in 3 months?
2. The draft order is based on the previous season. The lottery is based on who misses the playoffs. If there are no playoffs then what? The cap is already gonna drop. You cancel the rest of the season it's dropping even more. That will impact FA. You will mess around and have teams that were projected to have cap room actually end up over the cap. There is a lot that comes with cancelling a season. A lot of it bleeds over into the next seaso.
3. That's what they have been doing the last 4 months and this is what they have come up with. What basis do we have to suggest that there will be a better option in 3 months, when flu season kicks off mind you?

A billion dollar entity should be the one to figure all of that out

 

[FTBS]

A billion dollar entity should be the one to figure all of that out

They claim that they have. By that same token, doesn't that mean they should be the one that decides when/how to play? You have an opinion and you are entitled to it. I wasn't trying to be an ass. These are legit questions. I see a lot of people saying "cancel the season" without regard for these things that would certainly be paramount for a multi billion dollar entitty or any entity that functioned like the league does. It's not as simple as just cancelling the season and then just moving forward without any lingering issues.

 

[Primetime]

The desperation to put an asterix on titles has always been laughable.

"Asterisk because everyone is healthy"

Except not everyone is healthy + greater likelihood of Covid placing you in IR at any point

"Asterisk because no fans, which favors the better team"

Which also means no momentum or crowd energy if the favored team is down early? No ruckus crowd to intimidate the underdog role players? Gotta dig ya'self out of your own hole?

"Asterisk because no travel"

Ahh.. so no travel fatigue for any team? They actually have to just focus on being better at basketball than the other team. Facing every team at their best?

"Asterisk because less days in-between"

Ahh.. only if they had travel fatigue to allow more days to recover...


"Asterisk bc it just favors the favored teams"

Ahhh.. because Lakers, Clippers, and Bucks weren't the overwhelming favorites

"Asterisk because any other team can win it with injuries, positive tests, choking/rising without crowd support"

Yes... fukk parity It's better if the favored teams are the foregone conclusion after all


I see what Giannis is talking about, w/o even getting to the mental aspect of being in such an environment and predicament.

Ultimately you can spin any asterisk claim as an advantage or disadvantage, but you and i both know it's not about being objective when it comes to that lol

 

[Young Fab]

Lol y’all nikkas the one sitting at home but tellin players this ring don’t count, that shyt don’t feel weird to y’all?

nikka!



Deez clowns is hilarious

 

[blockboy504]

nikkas giving us whole paragraphs like they the ones out here playing

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Lol y’all nikkas the one sitting at home but tellin players this ring don’t count, that shyt don’t feel weird to y’all?

This reminds me... A few months back, this one fakkit on here was talmbout, “Kyrie is lost and has no purpose in life.” Or something along those lines.

I had to remind that fakkit that he’s posting from his mother’s basement and that Kyrie is getting paid millions to play a game that he loves and is going to make his family wealthy for generations.

Coli nikkas is something else, man.

 

[Apprentice]

This reminds me... A few months back, this one fakkit on here was talmbout, “Kyrie is lost and has no purpose in life.” Or something along those lines.

I had to remind that fakkit that he’s posting from his mother’s basement and that Kyrie is getting paid millions to play a game that he loves and is going to make his family wealthy for generations.

Coli nikkas is something else, man.

nikkas is lost fr bra

 

[ABlackMan]

Breh...the league will frame this as the ultimate challenge and you can see players already spewing this nonsense. It's a joke. As I said before, these are glorified scrimmages dressed up as real games.

The funny part is watching Coli niccas so pressed to watch basketball eating this shyt up.

EXACTLY