The 2019-2020 Around the NBA thread

[Hoop Head]

This is what I have been hoping to hear, at least televise the games if they are to be played in mostly empty arenas.

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They'll televise the game everywhere but their home markets, claiming blackout rules apply since the game isn't a sell out.

 

[Mainstreet]

They'll televise the game everywhere but their home markets, claiming blackout rules apply since the game isn't a sell out.

Too funny.

 

[Mainstreet]

The greater consensus among teams is to play games without fans. Isn't television money wonderful.

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[Mainstreet]

Jazz vs Thunder game posponed.

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[AsUpRoDiGy]

Jazz vs Thunder game posponed.

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Rudy Gobert is apparently sick, which is why the game was called. No confirmation as to what it actually is, however.

 

[Mainstreet]

And here is why.

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[Mainstreet]

NBA season SUSPENDED.

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[Mainstreet]

Wow.

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[Mainstreet]

The NBA will use the suspension to find a way forward.

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[JerkFace]

This is getting crazy.

 

[BC867]

This is getting crazy.

If by crazy, you mean serious. Yup!

Even Tom Hanks and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus.

To the millions of people in everyday life, they're saying that this
will be a major worldwide issue for the next two months, at least.

 

[Mainstreet]

If by crazy, you mean serious. Yup!

Even Tom Hanks and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus.

To the millions of people in everyday life, they're saying that this
will be a major worldwide issue for the next two months, at least.

Think how many people who have it who have not been tested.

I was watching local news a day or two ago and they had like only 225 tests for Arizona.

 

[Hoop Head]

This could be Vince Carter's final NBA play. He's the oldest player in the league now at 43 years old and is in his 22nd NBA season. Kind of crazy he made it that long.

I remember when he was younger and Barkley would call him "Half-Man/Half-a-Season" as a play on his "Half-Man/Half-Amazing" nickname. He did play for the Suns back during the 2010-11 season.

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[Mainstreet]

Tim MacMahon‏Verified account @espn_macmahon

Mark Cuban says the NBA has told teams that they can continue to practice. He adds that players have been told they should not have visitors from out of town.

7:55 PM - 11 Mar 2020

 

[GatorAZ]

And here is why.

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Sounds like he felt good to play.

 

[Mainstreet]

Sounds like he felt good to play.

That's where the novel coronavirus is so insidious. Older people with preexisting conditions are usually the ones at risk for death.

 

[AzStevenCal]

That's where the novel coronavirus is so insidious. Older people with preexisting conditions are usually the ones at risk for death.

Yeah, younger people will just die from broken legs and appendicitis because the health care system will be so overburdened from us old people gasping for breath because there will be no respirators for most of us.

 

[GatorAZ]

That's where the novel coronavirus is so insidious. Older people with preexisting conditions are usually the ones at risk for death.

Isn’t that true for pretty much every type of infection/virus? Babies and the elderly have weaker immune systems.

 

[Mainstreet]

Yeah, younger people will just die from broken legs and appendicitis because the health care system will be so overburdened from us old people gasping for breath because there will be no respirators for most of us.

I guess no building a hospital in 10 days for this country. It's so sad this country dragged it's feet when they had time to prepare for it after the outbreak in China.

 

[GatorAZ]

Yeah, younger people will just die from broken legs and appendicitis because the health care system will be so overburdened from us old people gasping for breath because there will be no respirators for most of us.

Anyone who saw Ricky Sobers in his prime is in serious trouble...

 

[Mainstreet]

Isn’t that true for pretty much every type of infection/virus? Babies and the elderly have weaker immune systems.

From what I have read and heard the novel corona virus is said to be 10 times more likely to kill than the ordinary flu virus. Apparently this virus doesn't attack the young as hard as it does the old with preexisting conditions.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Anyone who saw Ricky Sobers in his prime is in serious trouble...

I should be safe, I mostly just listened to the Suns games on Armed Services radio during Ricky's short stay.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Does anyone have video of Gobert making fun of people panicking about the Coronavirus and then purposefully touching all the microphones? Apparently that really happened. And he has it! The freaking ******** has it!

 

[gimpy]

They showed it on the local news. ^^

 

[BC867]

Does anyone have video of Gobert making fun of people panicking about the Coronavirus and then purposefully touching all the microphones? Apparently that really happened. And he has it! The freaking ******** has it!

https://news.yahoo.com/nba-player-tests-positive-coronavirus-022317874.html