NBA: June 15 to 25 lines up

X-Files · Mar 29, 2020

at Betonline. Why? Has anyone announced a schedule? On NBA.com there is nothing on the schedule for that date. And at some other sportsbooks (as well as BOL) i only see lines for Chinese Taipei games tomorrow:

https://www.betonline.ag/sportsbook/basketball/nba
https://ca.global.nba.com/scores/#!/2020-06-15

"NBA Watching Chinese Basketball Association for Tips on How to Restart":

"Just like you, every person employed by the NBA wants to get back to work. If LeBron James has his way, he'll work in front of fans and "kick their ass."

"...Players like Jeremy Lin and Lance Stephenson have gone back to China to quartine for 14 days as a precaution before they head to training camp. One option the CBA is considering is having the league operate out of one location.

All essential personnel would house, workout, and play in the same facility. If this plan is successful, the NBA could be quick to adopt this model.

You could see the NBA run like an early-season college basketball tournament. Games being played all day in places like Las Vegas or the Bahamas.

There is even talk of having a college campus in the midwest has a host site. Why the midwest? COVID-19 is less of a problem in that part of America for now.

...Maverick's owner Mark Cuban's intel says June 1st;

https://www.si.com/nba/thunder/news...etball-association-for-tips-on-how-to-restart

"The season was supposed to resume the first week of April, then it moved to April 15. Now the CBA restart has been delayed to late April or early May, sources said. That could mean a layoff of more than three months since the league shuttered.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...tempt-restart-basketball-coronavirus-pandemic

X-Files · Mar 29, 2020

"The CBA has watched as basketball leagues in Japan and South Korea have attempted returns and canceled them. The CBA knows the eyes of the sporting world are on it and is cognizant of the stakes if there's a setback, sources said.

The Chinese government is also concerned about a coronavirus resurgence and announced plans to close the borders to foreign nationals starting March 28 after a new set of cases was detected from foreigners arriving in the country.

The CBA hasn't formally announced a plan, but multiple sources said that what has been drawn up includes clustering teams in one or two cities and playing one another in a round-robin format in empty arenas over several weeks. There are 16 games left for each of the 20 teams in the league. The goal has been to play out the remaining schedule in full before moving on to the playoffs, with the hope that fans could eventually be admitted.

The CBA has discussed playing in Dongguan, a city in the warmer southern region that hasn't seen the same volume of cases as other areas. Another option has been Qingdao, a coastal city in northeast China that typically receives many travelers from nearby Japan and South Korea and has developed effective quarantine strategies. Teams would live and play in a constantly monitored environment, with players' temperatures checked several times a day.

If the plan were to unfold without incident, it could be a strategy the NBA considers among other options. Ideally, NBA teams would be able to train in their facilities and play in their arenas. But in the near term, that might be impossible, especially with escalating health concerns gripping the nation. The NBA could look at venues in a centralized location, perhaps playing in non-NBA cities.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...tempt-restart-basketball-coronavirus-pandemic

X-Files · Mar 29, 2020

"[h=1]Knicks, Rangers owner James Dolan tests positive for COVID-19"[/h]

Mobdeeper7239 · Mar 29, 2020

X-Files said:
"Knicks, Rangers owner James Dolan tests positive for COVID-19"

Was thinking most likely someone gave him it on purpose. Not kidding either

X-Files · Apr 1, 2020

Update:

China orders Chinese Basketball Association, other sports to delay return, per report

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The CBA planned to restart the season in May after postponing the season in January

While NBA owners remain optimistic that the 2019-20 season can be salvaged in some way, the league isn't any closer in knowing when it will be safe to resume play as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States. One marker that everyone was looking at, though, was when the Chinese Basketball Association would resume. However, the return date of the CBA is more unclear now after the Chinese government issued an order Tuesday that restricts all group sporting events from resuming play, per ESPN's Brian Windhorst.

The CBA initially planned to return April 15 after halting its season in late January due to COVID-19, but after not receiving approval from the government to continue playing, the league decided to delay its return even further to May. Now with this new order in place, which has no timetable on when it will expire, the return date for this season is up in the air. The decision to delay the return of the CBA reportedly stems from concerns made by sports officials, who are wary about the unknown number of asymptomatic carriers who could potentially pass the virus on to someone else.

Even though questions remain regarding when the CBA will resume play, teams are still telling its players that there is a chance this season can be salvaged, per ESPN's Jonathan Givony. Over half of the American players in the CBA league traveled back to China to resume the season, under the assumption that things would pick back up soon. Now with an unclear return date, players like Jeremy Lin and Lance Stephenson, who traveled back and self-quarantined for 14 days, are reportedly stuck in China and are concerned about potentially playing into July and August to finish out the season.

China, though, isn't the only country where its pro basketball leagues have run into issues when trying to restart its season. Japan's B League tried to make a return in late March, but after a reportedly "chaotic" weekend, decided to cancel the rest of the season. South Korea's basketball league, the KBL, decided to cancel the remainder of the season due to safety concerns because of the coronavirus.

While this doesn't entirely reflect what the NBA should expect when it tries to resume play potentially this summer, it is a bit discouraging. The spread of the coronavirus has slowed down in China, and South Korea has been lauded for its efforts in combating the virus, and still have not been able to get back to normal. With the continued delay in China to restart the CBA, the NBA's potential return date of June after just three months off looks to be optimistic given what's happening around the globe.