Put $300 on Utah @50/1
2k on BOS @ 20/1
100 on OKC @ 100/1
475 on Tor @ 22/1
Already locked Boston in earlier this season at near 40:1.
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Some NBA players may protest by boycotting playoffs
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Already locked Boston in earlier this season at near 40:1.
.Yep also folks don't understand the big name stars and the league reps can't say well I ain't coming back.
One reason is because if the big name stars say they don't want to come back then there is no season. Which means the league makes no revenue cause the tv contracts doesn't meet the 70 game threshold. Which in turn the cap goes to say 50 percent of what it is now. So we will have not just stars taking payouts but lower level bench dudes taking paycuts. So lets say you Kuzma or the 12th dude on the bench your salary goes from 3 mill to 750k or 2 mill to 250k. We are talking massive paycuts. Also the league may then have no money for gleague or the WNBA. Cause they make no profit from those leagues.
Dudley already pointed this out. It could be a lot of kats salaries go up in smoke next season.
Its a trickle down affect cause basically everyone eats off the big name stars. Cause thats why the league has those huge contracts and that is who folks tune in to see. Also the big name stars are representatives of the players union. So if they taking a no play stand it affects everyone.
We saw this with all these lockouts how the low level players would be like naw you stars make a damn deal cause we out here starving.
Now cool kyrie and melo supposedly don't want to play. But they have made their money over their career. On a national level no one tunes in to see them...they do not carry the league or make or break the league. And probably wouldn't be in the playoffs anyway.
IMO this is more about covid and having to stay in a bubble for months. These dudes who have no chance to win and who have already made their money and who really don't have a responsibility to all the other players are the ones who I believe are against restarting the season.
They just don't see the need to risk getting covid if they ain't on a championship team and them sitting out aint gonna be looked at as fukking it up for everyone.
Also the NBA ain't the NFL. Ain't no guarantee folks gonna jump right back in and be watching like before if they are gone until october. So advertisers could say naw yall been gone awhile we gonna renegotiate these deals.
We know the NFL is bullet proof in America. But other sports could see a huge drop in following if they sit out for too long.
One more thing I believe those two laker players who tested positive may have been avery and dwight. But we will never know.
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3rd Koast Kang
Superstar
Put $300 on Utah @50/1
2k on BOS @ 20/1
100 on OKC @ 100/1
475 on Tor @ 22/1
To do what?
Theo Penn
on that Earl Stevens wine
Exactly....so what, do we just stop watching sports until civil rights is settled and done.....c’mon
now all the bubble concerns I get....but the George floyd situation is now set in stone in the fabric of America, nba players playin ball will not shift that fact to the left or right
House nicca talk
Exactly and this could be a nuclear winter for the NBA. As I said before this league ain't the NFL. They gone for too long ain't no guarantee that everyone coming back to watch.
So basically this is all about the league just trying to stay afloat now IMO.
Already locked Boston in earlier this season at near 40:1.
WOAT
Oldschooler
All Star
Players have leverage anytime they want to come together and decide not to play. My thing is are they ready to go from making millions to zero for the next year or so?The players have a lot of leverage right now. A lot
100 to win 10k fukk itTo do what?
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Don't forget to quote my when Stiddy throws 30+ TD's this season and Harry breaks 1,000 yards.
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Yup. I said before, there's 2 major but separate issues to iron out:
How many of these players genuinely want to make a #BLM stand by not playing (but would otherwise have been for the Covid/Bubble idea)?
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How many of these players are really just shook of the Covid/Bubble, and are looking for a way out?
If it's genuinely about the #BLM, then great; layout some objectives, expectations, demands, and tangible outcomes... it's an easier sell to the players who actually want to play if there's a plan and endgame in mind. If it comes across as just ambiguous posturing that amounts to everyone pretty much sitting on their assess from Aug-October, with no unified demands to government or big businesses.. well, the divide among the players will remain.
I could definitely see it happening. shyt, I hope to see it hapoen just because you got $$$ on it. I always like seein' coli ppl win $$$
ALonelyDad
Veteran
Nba players can definitely do this since stars determine the league. If stars sit, rest will follow. Hard to know if stars would be unified though.
