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NBA commissioner Adam Silver said his "best guess" is that the league will not begin its next season until 2021, emphasizing that "the goal is to play a standard season."
Silver discussed the NBA's plans for the 2020-21 season Tuesday as part of a wide-ranging interview with CNN.
The NBA announced earlier this year that the tentative start date for the 2020-21 season was Dec. 1, but Silver acknowledged last month that the date was "feeling a little bit early to me."
Silver said Tuesday that the NBA had hoped as recently as a week ago that "the earliest we would start is Christmas of this year," but he then said that as more coronavirus-related information becomes available, he believes that the league will "be better off getting into January."
Silver clarified that a "standard season" would include an 82-game regular season and full postseason, and he noted that "the goal would be to play games in home arenas in front of fans."
"But there's still a lot that we need to learn in terms of rapid testing, for example," Silver said. "Would that be a means of getting fans into our buildings? Will there be other protections?"
Silver said the NBA is "clearly learning a lot from other sports," citing COVID-19 protocols being used by Major League Baseball, the NFL and major college sports programs.
"There's lots of new information out there in the marketplace that we're looking to absorb," he said.
The NBA already has delayed the date of the 2020 draft to Nov. 18, which allows the league and players' union to negotiate amendments to the collective bargaining agreement and agree on 2020-21 salary cap and luxury tax thresholds.
Silver has previously said roughly 40% of the league's once-projected $8 billion in revenue is tied to having fans in arenas.
Silver discussed the NBA's plans for the 2020-21 season Tuesday as part of a wide-ranging interview with CNN.
The NBA announced earlier this year that the tentative start date for the 2020-21 season was Dec. 1, but Silver acknowledged last month that the date was "feeling a little bit early to me."
Silver said Tuesday that the NBA had hoped as recently as a week ago that "the earliest we would start is Christmas of this year," but he then said that as more coronavirus-related information becomes available, he believes that the league will "be better off getting into January."
Silver clarified that a "standard season" would include an 82-game regular season and full postseason, and he noted that "the goal would be to play games in home arenas in front of fans."
"But there's still a lot that we need to learn in terms of rapid testing, for example," Silver said. "Would that be a means of getting fans into our buildings? Will there be other protections?"
Silver said the NBA is "clearly learning a lot from other sports," citing COVID-19 protocols being used by Major League Baseball, the NFL and major college sports programs.
"There's lots of new information out there in the marketplace that we're looking to absorb," he said.
The NBA already has delayed the date of the 2020 draft to Nov. 18, which allows the league and players' union to negotiate amendments to the collective bargaining agreement and agree on 2020-21 salary cap and luxury tax thresholds.
Silver has previously said roughly 40% of the league's once-projected $8 billion in revenue is tied to having fans in arenas.
PFs are probably out of the question, but I'm confused by the take that KPJ can't defend SFs. He played most of his minutes at SF last year, and will only get better there as his body matures. Physically he's probably 1" shorter than the typical SF, but that's not such a big deal that it should dictate who we draft this year.
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Size and versatility. Garland doesn't bring any advantages of playing two small guards. He isn't quick or fast for his position. Him and Sexton together creates a liability on defense.
At the end of the day, keeping both Garland and Sexton long term isn't going to maximize either of them. They will have to split the PG minutes and play 12+ minutes together every night. If you can get value from Garland now and start building a better backcourt, I think they should do it.
Haliburton adds size and versatility. There should be no problem playing him next to Sexton for 30+ minutes a night. If they need to go big, you can take Sexton off the floor and have Haliburton play PG on both ends of the floor. Haliburton also has the size and length to be in a switch everything lineup.
I think Oubre and #10 for Garland and Exum makes sense for the Cavs, I'm not sure it makes sense for the Suns.
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Porter is a SG/SF. With Garland and Sexton's defense, I'm not sure I would want Porter to exclusively play SG. That will lead to the coaches asking him to defend the best guard on the floor like JR and Shump had to with Kyrie. He will end up chasing around PGs all the time. With Porters build, I think it will wear him down just like JR and Shump did defending out of position.
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Because, if you're adding Ourbre it changes the makeup of the starting line-up.
Sexton and Oubre are an optimal combination and that means Garland is the odd-man out because a little person backcourt won't work.
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The coach who wanted this situation with Collin and Darius failed spectacularly and is gone? This is the pg draft not last year, and there is a big pg who is defensive minded and could help us maximize our leading scorer?
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I think there may be some confusion due to people's interpretations of size/position etc. I am talking about the bigger SF's like Durant, Kawhi. Can he guard the 6'6 ones? Most likely but the 6'8-6'10 I don't think so. I also believe he is far better equipped to guard players smaller than him, I think he could be elite at defending the smaller guards/fwds in the 6-0-6'6 range just based on what I have seen. Does he have the Smart/Jrue Holiday ability of guarding players a fair bit bigger than him? I have seen no evidence so I would not be using yet another first rounder on a guard
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I think the problem might end up that the two players that are SF size in LeMelo and Deni might be gone at #5. The SFs after them might be in a tier or two below the talent we will have available to us at #5.
I'd personally prefer taking the higher tier player than reach for a position of need. We aren't stacked enough at any position to just pass higher talent. Star level trades tend to materialize with a combination of draft picks and young talent. Cavs rarely had both to give up at the same time. If we take a guard, we can move one later if they all work out. If they don't all work out then it might look good we didn't pass up on a player because of a unproven player on our roster.
I guess that's true, it's just way way down on my list of concerns. If we were planning to contend then yeah, I'd agree that we need to find some kind of big wing defender who could slow down Durant and Kawhi. But we're just trying to not have the worst defense in league history and maybe sneak into the 8th seed.
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Maybe they want a PG that's actually good at basketball?
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In that Miami game he won for us, he guarded Bam successfully on a switch in the post. He is strong and long, and might be as tall as 6'7" His body is shaped like Iggy who is also in that 6'6" range. Low center of gravity with a large torso