Is this NBA Season Over?

On March 11th, the story of Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 shocked the entire sports world, the events that followed next shocked the entire world. The NBA immediately announced that the NBA season will be suspended, for the foreseeable future.

Adam Silver said that the NBA season will be suspended for at least one month, the only problem is that with this pandemic we are facing, the news is changing everyday. Everyday the COVID-19 has shut down another state, the death toll is rising, and the entire world is trying to flatten the curve.

There was a report that the NBA owners and players want to salvage this season "no matter what." The NBA is exploring options that could have the season going into July, August, or even possibly September. Now with the season being extended the next question is how will this affect the next season? There is a growing number of owners and media members who wants the season to begin on Christmas, this will prevent the NBA from competing with the NFL for viewers and interest. The Atlanta Hawks CEO has already proposed this idea before the pandemic caused the season to be postponed.

Bill Simmons said on his recent podcast that Labor Day is quietly the secret day to look at during this time. The NBA doesn't want the Finals to compete with the NFL season, this could cause for the worst rating NBA Finals of all time.

NBA owner Mark Cuban said in a recent interview that he believes the NBA season will start back up on June 1st, while NBA Broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy is convinced this season is over. If the NBA season is cancelled it will cause a lot of problems and issues.

Someone like the Clippers will now have just one year to impress Paul George and Kwahi Leonard, who can opt out of their contracts after the next season. While the 76ers will make no drastic changes, giving Brett Brown another year as the head coach. The Warriors Finals streak is still alive, with there not being an NBA finals, and LeBron James will have missed the playoffs another year in his career, which ESPN analysts will convince themselves to use against him. However Knick's fans can convince themselves that this year wasn't a complete failure because they technically didn't miss the playoffs.

No one truly knows what's going to happen, thats a fact. If you want to know what's going to happen you're going to need someone from the future to tell us what will happen. From now on we need to listen to health experts and go from there. In my best guess I would say that the NBA season will continue in June.

The New York Knicks Biggest Mistake

In 1976 the NBA and ABA merged into one league, at this time the NBA acquired the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers. The Knicks were so upset about this merger, because now they will have another team in New York competing with them in their own league, that they demanded the Nets had to pay out a $5 million indemnity payment. The New York Nets owner, Roy Boe, couldn't afford the payment at the time, so he offered the Knicks Julius Erving for the payment. The Knicks turned this offer down and this move would be called the biggest mistake in franchise history.

Ultimately the Philadelphia 76ers would buy Dr. J's contract for more than enough money to pay off the Knicks. Roy Boe would go on to say "The merger agreement killed the Nets as an NBA franchise. …The merger agreement got us into the NBA, but it forced me to destroy the team by selling Erving to pay the bill." The next season the Nets would go on to finish a league's worst 22-60 record, this would force Boe to take the team back to New Jersey and rebuild.  

The NBA Next Breakout Superstar?

In today's NBA we are often looking for the next story of triumph and success. We are often waiting and debating about who is going to be the next breakout player. Last season it was Pascal Siakam, of the Toronto Raptors. This year it is quite easily Devonte' Graham of the Charlotte Hornets.

Graham isn't being talked about nationally because of how little attention the Hornets receive. They only play 3 games on National TV this year. Anyone who has kept up with the Hornets at all should know that they've been impressive, compared to the expectations that were set for them before the season started. They are currently 8-13, currently sitting in the 9th seed in the Eastern Conference only one game back from the 8th seed.

Devonte' Graham has been quite impressive this year scoring 18.2 points, 7.4 assists, and 3.5 rebounds. To put this into comparison last season Graham averaged 4.7 points, 2.6 assists, and 1.4 rebounds. Last season Graham only played 46 games and had 3 starts, this season he has played in all 21 games and has started in 11 of them.

Graham has been quite impressive for the Hornets so far. Graham has lead the Hornets in points and assists, and he's second in 3 point percentage. Graham has lead the Hornets into a possible push for the playoffs. He truly is the breakout star this season, but only time will tell when the National Media coverage will catch up to it.

Can The Cleveland Browns Turn It Around?

The Cleveland Browns are currently 1-2, with their only win being against the New York Jets. When they played the Jets, they were without Sam Darnold and were forced to play with 3rd stringer, Luke Falk. The Browns looked unstoppable and seemed to have bounced back from the horrific week 1 loss to the Titans, the final score was 43 to 13.

In week 3, the Browns lost to the Rams 20-13 in a heartbreaking fashion. The Browns were the 6 yard line with 4 attempts to score. Baker Mayfield's first pass was overthrown, second one was tipped, the 3rd one was incomplete, and the 4th one was ultimately intercepted with 30 seconds left in the game. The Rams would take a knee and win the game. What made this loss feel even worst than normal was the fact that Daniel Jones looked like a top 5 quarterback, passing for 336 yard, 2 passing touchdowns. and rushing for 2 more touchdowns. With Odell being traded from the Giants, the question was being asked on if Odell would've been better off with Jones instead of Mayfield.

The Browns biggest problem is their offensive line, they can't seem to protect Mayfield most of the time. The Coaching staff for the Browns needs to address this problem and quickly change their playbook to adjust. With Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham, the Browns, in theory, should have no problem moving the ball at all. With Baker having little to no time to throw, they should be running more slant plays and screens for Odell and Landry. When Odell catches the slant is when he's the most dangerous, the Giants mainly ran slant plays to Odell and it proved to be the most effective.

The Browns arguably have the best wide receiver duo in the league with Landry and Beckham, it's ultimately up to the coaching staff to adjust to their glaring weakness on the line. Odell Beckham is the most electrifying receiver in the league, and Baker has the balls to throw any play ball up to Odell. This quarterback-reciver duo should be working and they need to have a better record than 1-2. If the Browns coaching staff doesn't turn this around. this has the chance to leading to most of that staff being fired before December.

Rookie no more! Will the younger generation rise up?

This exciting NBA has many story lines about teams preping for their window of championships in the next 2-3 years. But one of the most important story lines are the rookies who played so well in their rookie year. With the top 3 players of that rookie class. The top 3 were Luka Doncic, Trea Young, and Deandre Ayton. Who will have there season this year?

Luka Doncic won the Rookie of the year for his first season. His career looks so promising for so many reasons. The first one is because he just got help from another young star in Kristaps Porzingis. This will take off pressure on the Luka in every possion. they are both young and can work well together if they have time to develop a good duo in the two of them. Also Luka is greatest weakness is his athleticism and that can be covered with good coaching and training in athleticism.Luka is looking to improve his game and make his team a real threat in the near future.

Trea Young is also coming off a great season from the last. His second hal of the season had him putting great numbers and triple doubles in multiple games. He put the pressure on voters to look away from luka in the voting process for Rookie of the year. Tea is a player who has shown great skill but now must face defense that are more prepared for his game this season. they will be waiting to see if he can still play his game again this year.

the final player to talk about is the number 1 pick Deandre Ayton. He had a solid year with his team the year before. I believe we wont see the best version of Deandre this coming season because the sun management isn't playing a plan. the team has no path to improving and it is showing. i believe Deandre is going to play well this year but nothing that will over shadow the other two because they will have the ball more then him. Deandre will have to put a practice in defense but his offense will show how good he could get.

Overall the future isn't that far away. it could happen this year where young players take the crown from the older players this or next season. There is always a toss up on who and what team will show that. there is a chance that these teams that just formed will have a short life span.Which one of theses players will succeed is all about work and luck for the most part.

The New York Giants Horrific Season

The New York Giants have been the absolute laughing stock of the entire league since trading away Odell Beckham and losing Landon Collins for nothing. So far this season hasn't even began but has been filled with many disappoints.

Sterling Shepard has suffered a fractured thumb and is listed as week-to-week. Sterling Shepard is going to be the best receiver on this team and hearing the news that he's already hurt is going to make any Giants fan discouraged about this upcoming season. Shepard will ultimately come back and be healthy again, which is a great thing for the Giants fans.

Corey Coleman has suffered a torn acl, that just means he's out for the rest of the season. Golden Tate said that Coleman was having a great offseason before this point. Tate also admitted that it's been a very deflating 24 hours in the wide receiver room.

The Giants have been having a very horrific offseason and it seems like it will only translate into a terrible season. The Giants only hope is that Saquon Barkley has an incredible season. I believe in Barkley who has already shown in his rookie year that he is going to be truly special and has what it takes to be an all-time great.

The Biggest Issue Facing Zion Williamson

Zion Williamson played a total of 9 minutes and recorded 11 points and 3 rebounds. In those 9 minutes Williamson showed how excited he could be in the league, having a few highlight plays being shown all over ESPN, Twitter, and Youtube. Ultimately Zion would sit for the rest of the Summer League as a "precautionary."

This "precautionary" has created a story of it's own as everyone is debating if the biggest issue facing Zion Williamson is his weight. Zion is the second heaviest NBA player, coming in at 284 pounds. Williamson is a 19 year old kid and still hasn't played an official regular season game. Zion is going to lose weight and the Pelicans will make sure he gets the right. They will have him working with their nutritionist to make sure Zion hits his ideal weight. Zion Williamson's weight will not be an issue with him by his 2nd year or 3rd year, at the latest.

The biggest issue facing Zion Williamson is the fact that he is Zion Williamson. Zion hasn't played a single game in the league and is already being compared to LeBron James and talked about if he will be one of the greatest players of all-time. If Zion has a bad game it'll be front page news, if he hits the "rookie wall," that almost all rookies hit, there will be discussion on if Zion is actually worth the hype. The pressure the media and society as a whole has place on this 19 year old kid is incredible. He's front page news, he's in everyone's debates about basketball, even Drake wore Zion's jersey during one of his concerts when Zion was still in high school.

With all of this hype there definitely some resentment from players around the league, not every player just some. Some of the players are probably feeling like what did this guy do to get this much hype? Zion Williamson will be a target to some of these players, they will try their hardest to ball out on him and lock him up to help make a name for themselves. It'll be like when Lonzo Ball was a rookie and Patrick Beverly went after him all game. Patrick locked Lonzo up from full court and made Lonzo's life that night terrible.

Zion's biggest issue he will face is the hype that surrounds him. If he doesn't become a great player in his first game in the NBA, then he will talked about as a bust. The pressure he faces is incredible and it's unbelievable that a 19 year old will face this issue. Zion Williamson will lose that weight that shouldn't even be a discussion of debate.