Happy Monday. If you missed it yesterday, we did our 15 and 60 mailbag on the Western covers.

That was a really fun one. Got some great questions. There are some good reactions to that one as well

So definitely give that a listen. John Hollanger and I recorded Hollanger Duncan. Today we talked about the Kenny Atkinson thing

We talked about how front offices try to deal with the media especially when they think the media is reporting things

unfairly. We talked about what's going to keep the coaching staffs of some of the best teams in the NBA up during the playoffs

And then of course we eliminated some teams from the playoffs and I gave a little postmortem on their season

So that was fun and let's get started here talk a little bit about

There's some news first actually that's probably the place to start here and obviously the biggest is the

Coronavirus and the news came out today that Santa Clara County

Which is not obviously an NBA team there, but that is in the Bay Area or San Jose is they have banned gatherings of over

1,000 people as of Monday night and that will include San Jose shark schemes

And so you'd have to imagine that at a minimum San Francisco won't be far behind them

It seems probable at the moment and we'll have to see what the other potential ways around that are

You know the idea of playing games without fans

You know there would still be a lot of people there because you need to put on the television broadcast and have all the

Support staff for the players and everything else like that and that presumably could be a part of the the call

There's a league call that's going on on Wednesday to discuss further action and I mean when you consider these kinds of things

I mean of course you can also see what's going on in Italy where they're going to have to come up with at least one branch

Maybe multiple branches of solutions here and one of the early things we saw was limiting limiting media access

temporarily, you know like not not allowing media locker room access and we'll see well

How how that affects things and then there's gonna be some distance in the inner rooms and things like that

But the real big question is like are they gonna have the games if they have the games? What is it gonna look like?

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