Dick Allen Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Quote They are bringing back 22 teams. The Bulls didn't make the cut. Hopefully the end of the Boylan era. Quote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 I'm just excited for bball to be back. It would have been fun if the Bulls made the cut, but they were awful and don't deserve it. I think the league could have been more creative in its use of a march madness style dynamic, but this will still be fun and exciting. Fired up. And now Bulls can entirely focus on next year. It would be nice if teams who don't play, somehow get some added developmental benefit to counteract the fact that these other teams are going to get more development and time to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 If it happens that the bulls are on the outside looking in(likely), and everything else plays out normally and there are no setbacks with quarantine and the start of the season is moved back to where it is rumored to be, it will be approximately 9 months between games for the bulls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 10 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said: If it happens that the bulls are on the outside looking in(likely), and everything else plays out normally and there are no setbacks with quarantine and the start of the season is moved back to where it is rumored to be, it will be approximately 9 months between games for the bulls As far as I’m concerned the bulls only played for 5 weeks in late April through May. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Kyyle23 said: If it happens that the bulls are on the outside looking in(likely), and everything else plays out normally and there are no setbacks with quarantine and the start of the season is moved back to where it is rumored to be, it will be approximately 9 months between games for the bulls God this is brutal to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 I know it wouldn't happen but do a tournament at the end, then make it so lottery odds get determined by this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 The Bubble may have burst. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29304500/sources-kyrie-irving-play-key-role-friday-call-players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2Jimmy0 Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 On 6/13/2020 at 1:26 AM, greg775 said: The Bubble may have burst. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29304500/sources-kyrie-irving-play-key-role-friday-call-players Nah. Follow the money. The players will play because if they don't, next year's salary cap will go down and the players will be taking huge pay cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 They are calling the group the Bulls are in the Delete Eight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptatc Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 57 minutes ago, Dick Allen said: They are calling the group the Bulls are in the Delete Eight. That's good. Someone should make t-shirts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Well S***. That's 5% of the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 39 minutes ago, Balta1701 said: Well S***. That's 5% of the league. Does this include the ones who tested positive initially or is this in addition to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: Does this include the ones who tested positive initially or is this in addition to it? This is a leak of medical info so not certain, but this sounds like it was one of the rounds of "Test everyone all at once" done before the league started its 14 day pre-season quarantine done on June 23. I think this is just right now. Edit: nvm, not a leak, here's your official version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 7 hours ago, Balta1701 said: Well S***. That's 5% of the league. Does this mean active infection or is this an antibody test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Chisoxfn said: Does this mean active infection or is this an antibody test? Those are active infections right now, thank Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 48 minutes ago, Balta1701 said: Those are active infections right now, thank Florida. Would be curious - is the NBA also doing full antibody testing (I would think at a minimum teams would want to get a good perspective of who may have immunity - albeit who knows how long it lasts). Also would be curious, if you got it initially and it was asymptomatic, does that mean the next team you get it, it would also be or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 18 hours ago, Chisoxfn said: Would be curious - is the NBA also doing full antibody testing (I would think at a minimum teams would want to get a good perspective of who may have immunity - albeit who knows how long it lasts). Also would be curious, if you got it initially and it was asymptomatic, does that mean the next team you get it, it would also be or not. Do you mean “next time” or team? That last sentence is a bit odd. If you mean “next time”, we don’t know but we hope so. We’ve seen that there are some examples of people actually getting it a few months apart in this country since it’s spreading rapidly enough that people can actually be exposed a couple times, but no real way yet to do any sort of statistical analysis of those cases. One was reported from Dallas this week. It probably will be less intense if you get a second infection because the body knows how to fight it, but some of the severe cases are because the immune system overreacts, hard to know how common those would be on a second exposure (think about severe allergic responses for that, if you’re allergic to bee stings, the second time you get stung often triggers a more intense immune response than the first). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Balta1701 said: Do you mean “next time” or team? That last sentence is a bit odd. If you mean “next time”, we don’t know but we hope so. We’ve seen that there are some examples of people actually getting it a few months apart in this country since it’s spreading rapidly enough that people can actually be exposed a couple times, but no real way yet to do any sort of statistical analysis of those cases. One was reported from Dallas this week. It probably will be less intense if you get a second infection because the body knows how to fight it, but some of the severe cases are because the immune system overreacts, hard to know how common those would be on a second exposure (think about severe allergic responses for that, if you’re allergic to bee stings, the second time you get stung often triggers a more intense immune response than the first). Yeah - I meant next time they got infected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 If the NBA does a 2nd bubble for those teams that didn't make the initial cut (i.e., the Bulls), I wonder if they can find a creative way to make it interesting (implications on lottery balls or something). Maybe ridiculous, but I think with everything going on with COVID, every league should find ways to push the envelope on creativity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 On 6/26/2020 at 8:44 PM, Balta1701 said: Those are active infections right now, thank Florida. I think thus far they are saying through testing 10%+ of NBA players have either tested positive and/or shown antibodies for Covid. I presume with all the travel NBA players did before lockdowns and the fact that they probably just see more people, they would in general be expected to have higher infection / antibody rates than a regular individual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 48 minutes ago, Chisoxfn said: If the NBA does a 2nd bubble for those teams that didn't make the initial cut (i.e., the Bulls), I wonder if they can find a creative way to make it interesting (implications on lottery balls or something). Maybe ridiculous, but I think with everything going on with COVID, every league should find ways to push the envelope on creativity. The second bubble is the absolute worst idea. Why even take away focus from the playoffs anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, bmags said: The second bubble is the absolute worst idea. Why even take away focus from the playoffs anyway? Backup site for when the Orlando bubble bursts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, Quin said: Backup site for when the Orlando bubble bursts. They can do that without threatening to show me boylenball 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 19 minutes ago, bmags said: The second bubble is the absolute worst idea. Why even take away focus from the playoffs anyway? I thought the 2nd bubble was thought to happen after the first season was mostly complete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 58 minutes ago, bmags said: The second bubble is the absolute worst idea. Why even take away focus from the playoffs anyway? I get why the teams not invited are worried though. It does stunt their players developmental growth, etc. You could say - well be a better team, but it wasn't like teams realized this would happen going into the season. I'm a Bulls fan so would want to watch for no reason other than to see the young players get more practice time. I also don't want for one the players to get hurt in a meaningless game either (so it is hard to say which I prefer - but at the very least enabling practice with some solid scrimmages seems like a good and fair construct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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