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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 11-6-20 The NBA in December, right? WRONG!

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We'll call it the 25% rule for the NBA.  They want to get the season started in December.  Not cool.  Covid cases are rising and they want to put 25% of the fans in the stadiums.  Nope.  Not for me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's time for Rent.

0:02.0

Rent.

0:04.0

And my rant is with the expectations of the NBA.

0:10.0

So the NBA is hoping to have between 25 and 50% fans in attendance when their sport gets going.

0:20.0

Explain to me how that's going to happen.

0:22.0

All right, COVID cases are going up pretty much all over the United States.

0:26.9

It's November.

0:28.1

All right, if indeed they toss the ball up on December 22nd, what's that going to look like? They've already

0:34.4

announced no court side seats, no one in attendance can be within 10 to 12

0:39.2

feet of the playing surface, and I hope I'm wrong here. I would love to see a lot of fans at the games.

0:46.4

But let's say I'm wrong for right now and let's say you can have 25% capacity at a basketball game. I'm asking you this question. You know, let me know, get

0:56.1

back to me, leave me a comment. All right, go to Twitter at GrantNapeer's show. Leave me a question

1:01.8

on crowd question.com because I want to ask you this because I don't get it.

1:06.0

25% capacity. Let's say that's what it is.

1:10.0

Are you really into going to a basketball game with the arena 75% empty?

1:16.2

Like does that sound like fun to you?

1:18.6

Like what would be the reason for going?

1:21.6

So you can cheer with everyone else when there's great plays and a

1:24.8

thrilling overtime finish like is that fun like for me I wouldn't do that you know I'm

1:31.0

a die-hard New York Giants fan and they stink so I wouldn't go to a game right now anyway

1:34.6

But if the Giants were you know in the race and I was like you know what I'm gonna go to New York and I'm gonna go to the Giants

1:40.6

Cowboys game or whatever the case may be. But then they told me well you know

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