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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

Cojo said:
So they would play all their games out of the same facility?
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This is kind of the only way I could see the NHL or NBA possibly concluding their seasons.

Get everybody who’d be involved—players, coaches, refs, training staff, game officials, event staff, TV people—all to one city/location, and then separate everyone and strictly isolate them all.

Once you get through 3-4 weeks with not a single one of any of those people showing any symptoms, then you start mini training camps, followed by playing the games.

Now, I still don’t think even that’s safe or practical under the present circumstances and I don’t think it’ll happen, but that’s just about the only way I could see them avoiding the outright cancellation of the 2020 playoffs & championship in either league.
 
LeafGm said:
This is kind of the only way I could see the NHL or NBA possibly concluding their seasons.

Get everybody who’d be involved—players, coaches, refs, training staff, game officials, event staff, TV people—all to one city/location, and then separate everyone and strictly isolate them all.

Once you get through 3-4 weeks with not a single one of any of those people showing any symptoms, then you start mini training camps, followed by playing the games.

Now, I still don’t think even that’s safe or practical under the present circumstances and I don’t think it’ll happen, but that’s just about the only way I could see them avoiding the outright cancellation of the 2020 playoffs & championship in either league.
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That city's mayor and the governor of that state would have to agree to have players, coaches, refs, staff fly in from New York, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, etc. and isolate themselves in that city's hotels. Then ALL of the cities with NBA teams' public officials would have to agree to let players from their cities go to mingle with players from hotspots, and then RETURN to their cities.

It is absolutely fucking idiotic.
 
hockeylover said:
That city's mayor and the governor of that state would have to agree to have players, coaches, refs, staff fly in from New York, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, etc. and isolate themselves in that city's hotels. Then ALL of the cities with NBA teams' public officials would have to agree to let players from their cities go to mingle with players from hotspots, and then RETURN to their cities.

It is absolutely fucking idiotic.
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Agreed. I don’t think there’s any safe or intelligent way of concluding the 2020 season in either the NBA or NHL.

But before either league finally reaches that conclusion, I expect the scenario I laid out is the kind of straw they’ll be grasping at.
 
One player gets sick and you have to isolate an entire team and any other team that player has played in the last 14 days. Boom. There goes your playoffs.
 
hockeylover said:
One player gets sick and you have to isolate an entire team and any other team that player has played in the last 14 days. Boom. There goes your playoffs.
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It's not just a player. For the NHL, even at 16 teams if they each bring in 35 players/coaches/trainers/etc..., that's 560 people. Now, factor in they all have to eat too, so you probably need another what? 50? 100? support staff. So now you're talking about maybe 1000 people that you have to completely contain and isolate. You don't think one of those food service or sanitation staff won't sneak out and get sick quarantined for 2 months to get through a playoff schedule?
 
UWHabs said:
It's not just a player. For the NHL, even at 16 teams if they each bring in 35 players/coaches/trainers/etc..., that's 560 people. Now, factor in they all have to eat too, so you probably need another what? 50? 100? support staff. So now you're talking about maybe 1000 people that you have to completely contain and isolate. You don't think one of those food service or sanitation staff won't sneak out and get sick quarantined for 2 months to get through a playoff schedule?
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Yup. And wherever they all stay would need hotel staff too. Who are all going home to their families every night.
 
hockeylover said:
That city's mayor and the governor of that state would have to agree to have players, coaches, refs, staff fly in from New York, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, etc. and isolate themselves in that city's hotels. Then ALL of the cities with NBA teams' public officials would have to agree to let players from their cities go to mingle with players from hotspots, and then RETURN to their cities.

It is absolutely fucking idiotic.
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i am sure one of those states that does not even have stay home orders would be fine hosting it....
 
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