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[Randy]

I voted yes yesterday morning. Can I change my vote?

[Silky Johnson]

I'm more concerned with how the NBA season being suspended will impact the WNBA's season. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the pandemic will be under control in time for WNBA training camp to start (wishful thinking, I know!). What I'm way more worried about is if the NBA elects to make up all the games they're going to miss, rather than declare those games canceled, and move directly into the playoffs: five WNBA teams share venues with NBA franchises and, if it comes down to preempting Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan or the Fever, in order to make up those dates... guess who's getting the short straw?

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Professional Hater. The Baron of #HateHard

My team no longer exists, so I'll have to settle for hating yours.

[RavenDog]

Democratic weaponization and fear mongering will persist, even if the virus weakens.

Fear of lawsuits, especially now with all the closures and shutdowns, corporations, companies, schools, institutions, eateries etc. will use extreme caution and diligence.

[Randy]

WNBA's statement. Rather uninformative, and vague.

https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-statement-regarding-covid-19/

[bcdawg04]

[WNBA 09]

MSG & Barclays will be closed for a few months.

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3-Time WNBA Champion-3-Time National Champion-4-Time Olympic Champion....And Yes DT "We Got Confeti" lol

[lethalweapon3]

FWIW, safe to assume Westchester is already, too.

~lw3

[toad455]

[Stormeo]

[J-Spoon]

Supposedly the NBA is discussing starting up again in 2 weeks or

starting the playoffs as scheduled with the current standings

so lets wait to see where we are come may

[WNBA 09]

[J-Spoon]

[root_thing]

[threadkiller1201]

J-Spoon wrote:
Damn!

My job just closed for a month
there's no basketball to watch
there's no new WNBA stuff to talk about
and I am sober
What the hell am I supposed to do for the next months

better myself, clean, roll pennies, what!?!







sports I used to watch on tv:

Jai-Alai

Roller Derby

Aussie Rules Football (middle of the night, but it was on!)

[Luuuc]

[Randy]

[Silky Johnson]

[Force10rulz]

[Shades]

https://elitesportsny.com/2020/03/12/madison-square-garden-barclays-center-could-be-closed-for-months/

[myrtle]

[root_thing]

I watched an interview with the head of the Harvard Global Health Institute. He said that the reason for all the closures is because we haven’t been able to test people due to the lack of test kits. Without better information, government officials and health experts are flying blind. Consequently, the only thing you can do is take drastic measures to limit human interaction, such as close workplaces and schools or cancel events. Officials are taking a blunt instrument to the problem because that’s all they have.

The main goal of these precautions is to ensure that our situation doesn’t reach crisis stage where hospitals are overwhelmed. We see that terrible scenario playing out in Italy. Containing spread of the virus to a manageable rate is paramount. The medical community refers to this mitigation effort as “flattening the curve.” Below is a link to the interview, as well as an article from the New York Times explaining the concept of “flattening the curve.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-federal-response-to-coronavirus-a-fiasco-says-global-health-expert

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve-mitigation-infection.html

Hopefully, if widespread testing finally arrives and we’re able to flatten the curve, then officials can make more nuanced decisions. Perhaps all these dire predictions about closures lasting six months to a year can be reduced to 3-4 months or even 2-3 months. Right now there’s still a lot of tough talk from politicians about shutting down as long as it takes. However, I think they’ll change their tune once unemployment spikes and tax revenues fall off a cliff. Yes, public health comes first, but economic hardship is no easy thing to endure either. We have to find some middle ground where we can secure the best combined outcome for both situations.

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[tfan]

I consider drastic measures as forcing people to remain inside except to get food or medicine ala Italy and Wuhan. One step up would be closing all the airports (great place to catch it as well as the plane) and limiting interstate travel as the virus is not equally distributed around the country.

[ClayK]

So the first case was reported in Wuhan in mid-November; yesterday they had fewer than five cases. It looks like, then, the virus runs its course in four or five months, which would put us in late summer -- when the Olympics start.

I think this season will at best be a truncated version, maybe a tournament of some sort, played after the Olympics. Or it may just be cancelled, especially if owners do lose money every season.

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[root_thing]

I don’t think we can simply compare the US to China. The Chinese government was basically in denial for a long time. They took minimal action until it was clear they had a crisis on their hands, and then they resorted to draconian measures. The US federal government also reacted slowly, but states and local governments have done better. We’ve also seen individual businesses and schools take early action. Consequently, there’s hope we never reach the crisis stage like China did, enabling the US to return to relative normalcy more quickly. We can also hold out hope that warm weather dampens the spread of COVID-19. Higher temperature slows down most viruses but by no means all. We just need to get lucky.

I’m hoping the country gets back to normal relatively quickly, but I'm less optimistic about the WNBA season. There will probably be a delay, and then you run into all the projected arena conflicts with NBA and NHL teams. Scheduling is going to be ugly.

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You can always do something else.

[NYL_WNBA_FAN]

Agree with Root. The US has not been well prepared for testing but we do have at least some degree of proactive measure taking place on more local levels.

However, the nba and nhl look like they could be playing into July. Coupled with the fact that as we get more testing throughout the US, there will still be thousands of documented cases, it’s still going to get worse before it gets better. I believe the US outlook will be very different in 4-6 weeks. Which to me means there’s no shot of the season starting on time. The one thing that might enable rescheduling is if the Olympics are cancelled...a likelihood that I think is enormous given the expected outlook for Europe in the coming months.

I’m feeling sad because the WNBA is my primary entertainment escape but honestly right now I’m focused on simple things such as being prepared and ensuring that my elderly mom is going to be ok. Pragmatically I’ve accepted that there’s probably no chance the season will start on time and a real possibility it won’t happen at all. No point in thinking about it in any other terms right now. More concerned about prepare and have our elderly and ill survive 2020 than I am about New York Liberty 2020. Can’t really even think basketball now especially since it’s very real that it won’t happen.

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The poster formerly known as LibWNBAFan.