Quote:It wasn’t long ago that NBA teams and players were expecting the 2020/21 season to begin sometime in the new year, perhaps even as late as March. However, after the league changed course last month and proposed a pre-Christmas restart, those teams are now preparing for free agency to begin in a week and for the regular season to tip off in less than six weeks.

With things moving so quickly, teams feel frustrated by the lack of information and clarity they’ve received from the NBA about how everything will work, writes Tim Bontemps of ESPN.

The league still has to finalize several short-term logistical details for the offseason, like when player and team option decisions are due or when trade exceptions will expire. Teams also have a number of questions about the health, safety, and travel protocols for the regular season, and are feeling pressure to figure out their plans for allowing fans into arenas.

“We know it’s hard, and they’re working on a lot of details,” one team president told ESPN. “They are listening to a lot of feedback from all of us. But at times we feel like we’re in the dark and that can get frustrating.”

“Nobody knows the rules,” a separate executive said, “and (the league) is making it up as it goes along.”

As Bontemps points out, when the NBA planned its summer restart to complete the 2019/20 season, it took several months for the league to work out all its safety protocols for the bubble. With no plans to create another bubble for ’20/21, the league and its teams must figure out how they’ll keep players, coaches, and other employees safe as clubs fly all over the country and fans are potentially allowed back into arenas. The timeline to establish all those new protocols is far more compressed than it was earlier this year.

“Everything is happening last minute, in a short period of time,” an Eastern Conference executive told ESPN. “There’s not much time to think through things.”

(11-13-2020, 07:21 PM)loki Wrote: Love to GS seems strange to me. I guess they took a hit of Wiggins and can't wait to get their hands on another toxic contract. Or they feel that Draymond is pretty much done.

(11-13-2020, 11:12 PM)Tyler Wrote: If Dallas is looking for a defensive-minded forward and a secondary playmaker, Green could solve two problems in one move. And come to think of it, Maxi would be a nice stand-in for Love in Cleveland. Hmm...

(11-13-2020, 07:23 PM)KillerLeft Wrote:

(11-13-2020, 07:21 PM)loki Wrote: Love to GS seems strange to me. I guess they took a hit of Wiggins and can't wait to get their hands on another toxic contract. Or they feel that Draymond is pretty much done.

Love to pretty much ANYWHERE seems strange to me.

(11-13-2020, 11:12 PM)Tyler Wrote: If Dallas is looking for a defensive-minded forward and a secondary playmaker, Green could solve two problems in one move.

(11-14-2020, 05:44 AM)omahen Wrote: He has a huge contract, and if GSW are looking to trade one of their title cornerstones, we shouldn't even answer the phone. I would be too scared to take that contract, after what we saw from him in last two seasons.

(11-14-2020, 05:42 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/Farbod_E/status/1327731870520336386

(11-14-2020, 05:47 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: Why so late an announcement?

(11-14-2020, 05:59 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I legit can’t decide if I think that team would be amazing or absolutely terrible. I do not think James Harden and Kyrie Irving are a good fit at all.