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Official 2020 NBA Offseason - First Half Season Schedule Out

Shooshmoo said:
Townie, you didn't write that article, did you? It's written like a college sophomore trying impress his journalism professor with big words and "Moreover"s.
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Nope, a tenured professor wrote it
 
palmab03 said:
NBA players have it pretty good. They get 50% of the revenues. There's a very high minimum wage of 90% of the salary cap per team, unlike baseball. Owners really only make a ton of money once they sell the team.
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They have it pretty good compared to most other sports but again could be better and it’s the job of the players association leadership to push for it. Again I said other leagues should learn from players like this.
 
TownieDeac said:
just a normal opportunity to work on a novel?
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Yet, someone else did it.

It's sad that you and Juice can't understand doing someone a favor as I have done for a good number of people here. But I'm not at all surprised that you and Juice don't get it.

Of course, you created a lie about my reaction and wouldn't even hone up to it.

But keep being snarky and having a false sense of superiority. It's so becoming.
 
Something about this whole plan leaves me feeling like there will be significant corona in the bubble.
 
rawarr said:
Something about this whole plan leaves me feeling like there will be significant corona in the bubble.
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The interesting part may be about the older coaches. Pop, Gentry and Antoni are over 65. I bet there are several others 55-65 and a bunch of older assistants to boot. They are in the prime age group. How they are handled could have impacts on many teams.
 
The Prime age group seems to have more to do with that age group having the heart problems already that make this deadly. However, there also seems to be a bit of randomness in that 1 outta 100 or 200 younger people get fucked. There's enough people in the NBA that someone's gonna die from it.
 
There are certain personnel who aren't exactly quarantined within the bubble.

 
The concept of a "players league" sounds great until you try to make it work. What happens if a player moves as a free agent? Does he keep his shares of the original team? What happens to shares when players retire? Gets traded? Is there a team vote for GM? Coach? Do players keep shares/options if they are cut?
 
TownieDeac said:
There are certain personnel who aren't exactly quarantined within the bubble.

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I guess league security better watch betting patterns for Disney workers. Someone make drop a few big bets if they have Covid and are assigned to a certain team.
 
I saw about that from JJ Redick. There are players all over the league worried about containment protocols, and it isn't just Kyrie muckraking.
 
Disney and the NBA need to stop dicking around and just establish a true bubble and pay support personnel accordingly. It can’t be hard to find Disney employees willing to live and work with NBA stars for 3 months. Just pay them. It makes no sense to leave money on the table when there’s so much money to be made.
 
man, how much would it suck to be a minimum wage employee being isolated from your family for three months to live in Orlando in the middle of the summer?
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
man, how much would it suck to be a minimum wage employee being isolated from your family for three months to live in Orlando in the middle of the summer?
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Your average Athletic beat writer is pulling in like $35k for the gig too
 
TownieDeac said:
Your average Athletic beat writer is pulling in like $35k for the gig too
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True, but someone (probably more than one) is going to strike it rich with a tell all book revealing what life was really like inside the bubble. Also, it will be a resume builder and connection maker in the industry. Used to be that beat writers would work to climb the ladder within their newspaper/publication to a comfortable life at the same place for decades. Now, the beat writer's job is a stepping stone to become an "insider" that can lead to a decent paying gig with a sports network and/or as a talking head and/or as a podcaster/speaker.
 
Pilchard said:
True, but someone (probably more than one) is going to strike it rich with a tell all book revealing what life was really like inside the bubble. Also, it will be a resume builder and connection maker in the industry. Used to be that beat writers would work to climb the ladder within their newspaper/publication to a comfortable life at the same place for decades. Now, the beat writer's job is a stepping stone to become an "insider" that can lead to a decent paying gig with a sports network and/or as a talking head and/or as a podcaster/speaker.
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I mean, we can demonstrate over the past year how little of this is true. For every one person who does get the ESPN gig, a hundred more talented people get laid off when a private equity interest decides that they could make Deadspin funnier if they pivoted to video, and when it failed, they could just write it off as a loss, pennies on their balance sheet.
 
Lol, those dudes are going to fuck anything that moves after three months.
 
TownieDeac said:
I mean, we can demonstrate over the past year how little of this is true. For every one person who does get the ESPN gig, a hundred more talented people get laid off when a private equity interest decides that they could make Deadspin funnier if they pivoted to video, and when it failed, they could just write it off as a loss, pennies on their balance sheet.
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What are you talking about? Of course, not everyone is going to make it big. Yes, the industry has changed, and it's harder to make a career out of covering sports, but it's not to the point where no one can do it. People still write books, and make money off of them. People have podcasts and make money off them. People make careers out of appearing on talking head shows. Someone will write a book about being on the inside of the NBA bubble and it will be entertaining. There are still opportunities to make covering sports, they are just in less conventional ways.
 
Pilchard said:
What are you talking about? Of course, not everyone is going to make it big. Yes, the industry has changed, and it's harder to make a career out of covering sports, but it's not to the point where no one can do it. People still write books, and make money off of them. People have podcasts and make money off them. People make careers out of appearing on talking head shows. Someone will write a book about being on the inside of the NBA bubble and it will be entertaining. There are still opportunities to make covering sports, they are just in less conventional ways.
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I agree with all this; just saying sports journalism has turned into a gig economy not dissimilar to the minimum wage workers originally mentioned.
 
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