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I also like DeMarcus Cousins whose career has been decimated by 3 major injuries. Not sure how I feel about this one as he would replace Dwight Howard, if Howard decides not to play and the Lakers reclaim Cousins

Report: DeMarcus Cousins weighing whether to sit out remainder of NBA season to focus on rehab

Former Los Angeles Lakers big man DeMarcus Cousins could be a significant addition to any team looking to make a deep run in the playoffs once the NBA season returns. While multiple teams have shown interest in signing Cousins, the four-time All Star may sit out the remainder of the season, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Cousins, 29, is still recovering after tearing his ACL last August. If the NBA resumes its season in July, Cousins would be nearly a year removed from the injury. In a best-case scenario, Cousins would be healthy enough to help a team down the stretch.

It’s unclear whether Cousins wants to do that, however. While Charania reports Cousins won’t return, Cousins’ agent, Jeff Schwartz, told Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times Cousins was still weighing his options. If Cousins comes back, “It would have to be a situation in which he feels comfortable to play rather than continue his rehab,” according to Ganguli.

Cousins has been limited by injuries the past couple of seasons. He tore his Achilles with the New Orleans Pelicans during the 2017-18 season, spent much of the following year rehabbing the injury with the Warriors and signed with the Lakers last July looking to prove he could still play at a high level. A month later, Cousins tore his ACL.

Given the nature of that injury — and the grueling recovery process — it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise Cousins is iffy about returning during a shortened season during a pandemic. By sitting out, Cousins has more time to recover, and can prep for a typical NBA season.

When he was in his prime, Cousins was among the best players in the NBA. Even if he’s lost the ability to put up elite numbers every single night, Cousins’ past dominance should be enough to make teams interested in the offseason.
 

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This is going to be some confusing resumption. A league where players can opt to play or not to play, for whatever reasons they will cite. And they will announce it bit by bit.
and it aint over yet

I was stunned to learn about Jokic
 
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The Jokic news gives a new meaning to those players who might test positive but exhibit no symptoms. Can they play after a 14 day quarantine period? And where will they be quarantined once the games have begun? Go out of the bubble and come back in? The games are good for 3 months.
 

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With all of the uncertainty in the country between Covid and BLM and now some of the players have taken up the cause of a man on death row who many feel is innocent. All of this has empowered the players now to the point that I believe many key players could sit out

I still believe that we are going to see upsets
 
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Players’ families must quarantine off-site before entering NBA’s Orlando bubble

Not having family and friends on the Walt Disney World campus has drawn intense complaints from players who don’t want to spend at least a month and maybe 50+ days away from the people they are closest to. Understandably, some teams and coaches are pushing to get families in earlier.

Even when that family does arrive, they will have to quarantine for days in another part of Orlando before they can enter the NBA’s bubble and see their loved one, reports Marc Stein of The New York Times.

According to the 113-page handbook of health and safety protocols put together by the league, teams can do this three-day quarantine for families in their home market — the Bucks could do it in Milwaukee, for example — but it must be overseen by the team and include coronavirus testing of family members. The league may have changed that to allow for only doing this initial quarantine in Orlando; the league’s original plan called for a seven-day quarantine once on the Disney campus, not just the four Stein reports (that quarantine still includes not seeing the player that is their family member).

Family will not go through these steps and be let into the bubble until after the first round of the playoffs. That means only eight teams will be allowed to bring in any family, and it will already be 50 days or more into the NBA’s Orlando experiment. Those family members have to follow the same health protocols — regular coronavirus testing, wearing a mask in public, etc. — that the players do.

It’s a lot, but the league wants to create a safe environment in Orlando, one where the virus is kept out (and if/when it gets in to be quickly contained). It sees this as the only way to pull off the restart in a state and nation where the number of coronavirus cases is on the rise again as governments open up the economy.



 

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ALL FOR THE MONEY. TV ratings, now or never. :D
 

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I read a commentary on ESPN the Lakers was supposed to have the home court advantage in normal times in a 7-game series in ALL games vs the Clippers. Now it's taken away and Pelinka was voicing out as to how the Lakers can be 'compensated' for that loss. :D
 

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I read a commentary on ESPN the Lakers was supposed to have the home court advantage in normal times in a 7-game series in ALL games vs the Clippers. Now it's taken away and Pelinka was voicing out as to how the Lakers can be 'compensated' for that loss. :D

I feel so bad for the Lakers. :rolleyes:
 
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