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Coronavirus: NBA reportedly considering

playing out season at single site without fans
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The NBA season remains shut down for the foreseeable future, but the question
remains. How is the league going to play out this season once it can get players back
on the court?

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Some NBA executives have one idea in mind, according to Mark Berman of the New
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Per the Post, a group of executives are keen on the idea of arranging for the season
to be played out at a single location:

Though news of the coronavirus pandemic has been discouraging, NBA

executives still cling to hope of arranging a one-site, fan-less, 16-team playoff
and a five-to-seven-game regular-season prelude, according to multiple NBA
sources.

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consideration as a last resort.

“Nothing is off the table,” another league official said.

As far as where this could happen, one natural answer is UNLV in Las Vegas, which
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Berman also reports that there have been talks about the Bahamas, Orlando, Atlantic
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City, Hawaii and Louisville for the playoffs.

ESPN’s Jay Williams threw out another idea earlier Monday: cruise ships.

They key number at play here is 70 regular season games, as regional networks
reportedly have contracts calling for at least 70 games for local teams. All teams are
currently around the mid-60s in games played, though many of those games have
been nationally televised.

The reported best-case scenario is starting up the season in late June — in line with
past reports — and delaying the opening of the 2020-21 season to Christmas. The Motion Picture Retirement Home Resident Tests
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Premier League has discussed similar coronavirus plan

The English Premier League has reportedly discussed a similar plan of playing out the
season in isolation.

In that plan, players and key staff would be quarantined in separate hotels while
waiting for their matches. Of course, such a plan carries several drawbacks.

For starters, such a system would isolate players from their families. A single positive
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the ethical questions of what happens when a player suffers a run-of-the-mill injury. The New York Times
Hospitals remain slammed by the coronavirus and could still be in a bad state by the
time the NBA returns.

But that’s where the sports world finds itself in the coronavirus pandemic. Teams want
to start playing again. Fans want to watch them. Employees want financial security. At
the end of the day, finding a way to play games that minimize risk for players and
eliminate risk for spectators — by barring them from games — might be the least-bad
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