NBA all-player call set for Friday, sources say

Agreed Rosalie. I'm beginning to think some of the teams led by a couple of players with considerable motivation and legacies on the line that have a legitimate shot at the title are feverishly at work behind the scenes to complete the season and playoffs. The list is short.

Lakers have probably the most reasons to want to finish things up in 2020. LeBron ain't getting any younger, has already started to develop a nagging groin injury and you never know when the window is slammed tight shut until it's too late and the lights have gone out. You only see it in the rear view mirror of your career.

Milwaukee, not so much but still has a beef and a legit shot for NBA Champions 2020. Giannis can wait. He has time and youth on his side.

TOR comes up in the conversation next. They look good and are fighting the good fight post-championship, but are all pretty sure the wheels will come off at some point. They aren't getting to the finals again without KL or a very, very close facsimile.

Next in line I'd put us and LAC. We know we are a little light thanks to all the unprecedented injuries and would need some serious help and breaks to get to the Finals this season. LAC has been up and down so much this season, and no disrespect to Doc, but I don't know if they can figure it all out in time.

Hapless Houston is next. They are really a 2nd Round exiter at best.

We are talking about huge, unimaginable sums of money involved that would be lost to cut the season and slam on the brakes. The only example I can think of in which to compare this in a completely negative way is Ken Lay of Enron. But it drives home the point He was cruising along making literally hundreds of millions of dollars personally and then the jig was up. His income went from 9-figures to zero pretty much overnight and then negative because the expenses did not stop right away. Massive liquidation of the non-frozen funds not frozen were executed and burned up in the ensuing fire in very short order in an effort to keep the lights on. All that stress resulted in a heart attack and his death.

The league knows some of these smaller markets can't survive the season shutting down. They will look at EVERY possible angle in order to complete the season and drag it out until the last possible day before admitting 2020 is over ahead of time. I know they have emergency measures in place because the season does shut down from time to time with strikes, lockouts, etc. Those are resolved relatively quickly because everyone has to come to the table. But like was said above, we still don't even know who or what we are dealing with or fighting against. There certainly is no end in site with this as of today.

Here in NC, we have just started Phase I of three to get back to normal. I thought for sure they were going to push back the May 8th start date for this because the metrics they were using to allow these phases to proceed were not met. The Governor has been picketed to death by those wanting to get back to work. There were even idiots trying to break into his mansion. I think he finally gave in. The cure reaches a point where it can't be worse than the disease. Now granted the first Phase is really light and the next two are the big high-risk ones, but the result is the same. We have no idea what is out there. Like fighting a ghost.

From reading the notes from the player's call, it sounds like Silver is still hanging on to continuing the season in some asterisk form. But he's right...the CBA is not built to handle a prolonged pandemic. He's trying to find a balance on a razor's edge beam with the wind blowing a hundred miles an hour and no balancing pole, all in a valiant effort to make players, management, owners, players, potential draftees and fans happy. This is a huge balancing act COVID-19 has thrown upon the league. Really impossible IMHBAO.

Rosalie, at some point Silver has to say, eff it, cut the cord and cancel the season.

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I agree Rosalie.

Hope all goes well for you and soon!