NBA 2019-2020 Season

[gunnar hendershow]

They're basically fucked for a few years. Brand has been a terrible GM for them, trading away assets and loading up on bad contracts. Tobias Harris and Al Horford are both grossly overpaid. 

It predates Brand, but the Fultz disaster didn't help. Clearly Boston found something when working him out and wanted to get away from that pick as much as possible. They probably would've been okay had they then not turned around and moved everything else they had to rent Jimmy Butler. Instead of paying him they got stuck paying Harris.

They don't have the flexibility to find the help they need. The Process worked and then Brand ruined it all.

[DMN in the House]

'The Portland Trailblazers aren't your normal eight seed!'

You're right, they're worse.

[The Lusophone]

Milwaukee Bucks appear to be boycotting their game vs the Orlando Magic.

[gunnar hendershow]

Celtics and Raptors might also boycott Game 1 tomorrow.

[Benjamin]

I really hope they do. Hope they don’t listen to Doc Rivers who’s saying that it’s important to do your jobs no matter what because that’s apparently more important than going to protest. 

[livid]

I fucking love my basketball team

[gunnar hendershow]

All games tonight are being boycotted. NBPA is meeting to discuss next steps I believe tonight.

[Lineker]

Bravo. That's amazing.

[Your Mom]

Everyone should go on strike. This is amazing I've never seen anything like it

[ThrillhouseMAX]

Sounds like Houston and OKC have joined as well. I'm proud of them.

[Chris2K]

All games postponed so I guess everything gets pushed back a day.

I'm not sure anything would have happened if the Bucks hadn't had the guts to make the first move, so huge respect to them.

[gunnar hendershow]

Someone had to be first.

I think the players heavily consider leaving the bubble and effectively ending the season during their meeting tonight.

[The Buscher]

Protests and activism are way more important than sports anyway, but even without all of this apparently a growing number of players were getting burned out on life in the bubble.  And there’s still three more rounds to go.  The teams that go the distance still have another seven weeks of this.  It’s just not going to happen.

[Maxx]

1 hour ago, B-li Manning said:

Protests and activism are way more important than sports anyway, but even without all of this apparently a growing number of players were getting burned out on life in the bubble.  And there’s still three more rounds to go.  The teams that go the distance still have another seven weeks of this.  It’s just not going to happen.

Counterpoint: Yes it is, they all agreed to it and are being paid to be there.

[The Buscher]

If we’re gonna continue to live in a society where cops aren’t gonna honor their agreements to serve and protect the public, employment agreements ain’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

[Pooker]

Lakers and Clippers have voted to stop playing. Every other team wants to continue. 

[gunnar hendershow]

From the sounds of it the players have put a lot of pressure on the team owners and Adam Silver to do more to address social issues. They also, allegedly, called them out for basically being absent from the bubble and the restart as a whole.

[Pooker]

I really do hope that they can invoke real change in this world. For all the talk about athletes being spoiled millionaires, people look up to and listen to them. They deserve to be heard as much as anybody else.

I hope this isn't the end of the season, however. Yes, protesting what is happening is important. But, so is working. We all have jobs to do, no matter what it is. 

[LL!]

28 minutes ago, Pooker said:

I really do hope that they can invoke real change in this world. For all the talk about athletes being spoiled millionaires, people look up to and listen to them. They deserve to be heard as much as anybody else.

I hope this isn't the end of the season, however. Yes, protesting what is happening is important. But, so is working. We all have jobs to do, no matter what it is. 

It is precisely that influence you mentioned in the first paragraph that makes it more important that they protest and shut down the season than work. 

[Pooker]

I'm not too sure on that...i see your point and the reasoning behind it. But I also see a lot of people tuning out because they're not playing. I've already seen quite a few people saying that they won't watch any more games because of this. But, if the games are still being played, more people will watch, giving them a wider audience to reach.