2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[SleepingHero]

I get what you're saying here, and I agree morally speaking, looking at recent events and the league's overall situation, but if there's a lockout with the season already starting so late, then 2020-21 likely goes completely bye-bye. Not sure if that just skips the vicissitudes of that year's contracts and such and moves things on to calendar 2021, or if everything gets pushed back a year.

The bubble was the stupidest idea the NBA could have done. Should've washed the season and started the new one on schedule. This way the revenue would be made up over the course of a regular 82 game season, versus a 200 million expense to try and recoup any sort of losses. 

Now the next season is in jeopardy. Adam Silver is by far the worst commissioner the NBA has ever had. From cheapening the product by putting ads on jerseys to killing NBA.com and making league pass considerably worse since 2015, to consistently making shortsighted choices that has overall hurt the NBA as a brand. The valuation of teams has skyrocketed due to the TV deal that was signed in 2012, so I'm not giving him any credit for that one. Dude has got to go. 

I will say though, he has done some things I like like getting rid of Donald Sterling. He stepped up and made an example of him.