The NBA's 2020-21 schedule plans: pros & cons
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina lay out the good, the bad and the ugly of the NBA's latest proposals for the 2020-21 season. Why is the league now eyeing a pre-Christmas start date? Why cut games out of the schedule? What do these proposed changes mean for plans to bring fans back into stands? Why does the NBA want to get its calendar back on track so badly? Will the players be ready after such a short off-season? Would Ben and Michael feel comfortable attending games as fans this season? Should the NBA utilize hub cities rather than all 30 markets? From there, the guys take questions from the Open Floor Globe. Would Giannis Antetokounmpo joining the Dallas Mavericks harm Luka Doncic's legacy? Should the Boston Celtics package assets to pursue a star-level player this summer?
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Hans is here with Mark Cessler and Greg Rosenthal from the Around the NFL Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | The 2023 NFL Draft is almost here and around the NFL has you covered with three shows |
| 0:09.6 | a week leading up to the big night. |
| 0:11.3 | We got to top prospects. |
| 0:12.9 | We got to big mysteries. |
| 0:14.5 | We got it all and we'll be joined by draft experts leading up to the big night to help |
| 0:18.5 | us predict how this draft will unfold, which is hard to do because this year's draft is |
| 0:22.7 | unpredictable and excited. |
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| 0:31.9 | Happy drafting. |
| 0:34.8 | What's up, open floor glow. |
| 0:35.9 | This has been Galver with the Washington Post. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm joined on the other line by Michael the pod Pina of 538 and GQ Michael. |
| 0:44.4 | I hope you're ready. |
| 0:45.4 | I hope you're embraced and ready to start sprinting through an off season. |
| 0:49.2 | You and I were thinking we were going to have all this time to fill. |
| 0:52.9 | Maybe it would be Martin Luther King Jr. day when the NBA restarted next season. |
| 0:57.0 | Maybe it would be in the February who knows reports came out last week. |
| 1:02.0 | There's a new plan, a different plan. |
| 1:04.2 | It sounds a little bit like what they were discussing before the bubble and which is that |
| 1:09.9 | the NBA at this point is considering restarting the 2020 2021 season before Christmas. |
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