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The Puppeteer
NBA might play games with no fans in the arena, due to the coronavirus
Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
Sources: The NBA has sent a memo to its franchises explaining that, due to coronavirus outbreak, teams should be preparing to play games without fans in attendance and identifying “essential staff” present for these games -- should it be necessary.
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JT
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Can you imagine how trash the playoffs would be without fans there? Wtf
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NBA Legend
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Originally Posted by Celtics 1825
Can you imagine how trash the playoffs would be without fans there? Wtf
TV broadcasts with a laugh track. I'd be even more interested in the playoffs if that were to happen.
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Gif-ted
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
They could also reduce traveling by playing in the same state with different arenas.
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NBA All-star
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Walk on Water was actually right. Can you believe that?
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Banned
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Originally Posted by jstern
Walk on Water was actually right. Can you believe that?
he's jesus
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wet brain
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
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2020 Insidehoops MVP
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Originally Posted by highwhey
good call
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wet brain
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
Originally Posted by Stanley Kobrick
good call
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NBA All-star
Re: NBA Games With No Fans
For the record Walk on Water called it, then highwey copied it and made a thread trying to make fun of Walk on Water. But damn, Walk on Water is the man. We need to give him a like.
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Banned
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2020 Insidehoops MVP
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NBA Superstar
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I don't get picked last at the park anymore
coronavirus may ban fans from NBA games?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...i-aint-playing
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ronavirus-memo
Sounds like a last resort contingency plan but this would be devastating to the league, the season, the players, the fans, the growth of the game, everything. Lebron says he won't play if there are no games, I can't imagine the deadpan quiet of an arena in a 'what is supposed to be' a high-intensity game, it would just be bizarro world
I'm a pulmonary doc by day, and here's my two cents on the whole thing...
Based on the latest reports from South Korea who have been testing aggressively, they're found ~6000 cases with ~40 deaths, putting it at a mortality rate of ~0.6%, which is not that different from the regular old flu (~0.1%). World wide the mortality is ~3.4%, but this likely reflects testing being done only in the sickest patients. If we test most with any symptoms (like we do for influenza), the denominator goes up, while the numerator stays the same = the mortality rate drops
So I understand the hysteria but most people in our field think this is a horrible virus that's spreading but it's not dooms day. Balancing between halting its spread and not letting it significantly alter our way of life is tough but I would hate to see fans banned from games, right as we're heading into ACT IV of the season
Last edited by PCCM_29; 03-07-2020 at 11:58 AM.
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NBA Legend
Re: coronavirus may ban fans from NBA games?
What are your thoughts on this having no vaccination of even mild effectiveness (like the flu does) as well as the lack of any mutation history or knowledge of its strains?
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