NBA: a 50-game season to protect the Tokyo Olympics?

A season of 70-72 matches that would start around Christmas, or even on December 22?

It's an idea that is gaining ground in the NBA.

Except that the players would not see it favorably.

Some players.

And especially the most important.

With a 2019-20 fiscal year stretching until October and the Draft not taking place until November 18, the recovery time would be short.

And the new ones would have little time to acclimatize to their new surroundings.

“If we start in December, I think most guys will tell themselves they won't go.

With an advanced recovery, I wouldn't expect LeBron James to be here for the first month, ”Laker Danny Green told

recently.

.

To see if this should happen, if the major players are really on this line.

NBA players may only be offered a 50-game season, I'm told, if the union insists on a mid-January start rather than the Dec. 22 proposal, because the league's television partners do not want the 2020-21 season to stray past mid-July ... or clash with the Tokyo Olympics

- Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) October 30, 2020

In any case, if player representatives (NBPA) pushed for a recovery in mid-January, the League would have a ready-made answer according to the

.

A response dictated by the interests of broadcasters.

The US networks have indeed no desire to see the NBA season compete with the Tokyo Olympics, from July 23 to August 8, 2021. Suddenly, the idea of ​​the Association would be to offer players a regular season of 50 matches, as Marc Stein reports.

Would everyone be happy?

To have.

Player salaries are in fact indexed to the regular season.

With 50 matches instead of 82, their income would be greatly impacted.

If they claim a start to the season in January and refuse the idea of ​​too much of a wage cut, the NBA would find itself in an impasse.

And time turns ...

Players can train in the halls

Good news for NBA players in need of work in this offseason period.

The League allows clubs to open training rooms to them, as reported by Shams Charania of 

 and 

.

One condition, however: no more than 10 people at a time. 

 specifies that players will have to take a negative Covid-19 test every day in order to participate in these group sessions.

The NBA has informed its 30 teams that they are now allowed to open practice facilities for group practices, workouts and scrimmages with up to 10 players, sources tell @ TheAthleticNBA @ Stadium.

- Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 30, 2020

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