No perfect solution to structure potential NBA restart. JLew1050 has more:
As the league progresses towards a plan to resume the 2019-20 season – likely at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, beginning late July or early August – they’ve got the unenviable task of trying to appease as many people as possible.
How many of the association’s 30 teams are going to participate? Will they play regular-season games or fast-forward to the playoffs? How will the playoff format be structured? Let’s say they bring back all 30 teams. Most owners would be pleased. Teams need to play at least 70 games per season to meet the minimum requirements on their regional television deals, and to cash those big cheques. However, after speaking with players and coaches on non-playoff clubs, it’s safe to say that many are less inclined to put themselves and their families at risk just to ramp up, play five or six regular-season games, and then go home without much to gain.
Some have suggested using World Cup-style pool play in the first round, so every team can get the same number of games in. It could be fun, but it would almost certainly devalue the regular season accomplishments of the league’s best teams and open the door for early upsets – something that might appeal to fans but probably wouldn’t sit well with the likes of the Bucks, Lakers, Clippers and Raptors, among others.
“The situation is unfair but life’s not fair a lot of times,” Lakers guard Danny Green told TSN over the phone this week. “I think a lot of people are going to put an asterisk next to this season. Whoever wins, they’ll say ‘it was a quarantine season, it wasn’t a fair season’.”
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