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The NBA comeback?

 

Today i wanna talk about one of my greatest interests, i talk about basketball, and specifically the NBA.

Because of the pandemic, the NBA as all the leagues of the world, stopped their activities in way to prevent and protect their players and staff fot the chance of get the virus. Plus of that situation, racial conflict in USA increase since the case of police butality in the killing of Geroge Floyd.

This situation is specifically important in a league that made up of 80% of afrodescendent players. 

A lot of players, and NBA community up their voices, participate actively and support the protests, in fact a lot of players up their voices about the police brutality that they suffer, even being NBA players.

          

But the problems, starts to increase by the announcement of the return of the NBA at July 31 by a decision made by players ( their sindicate), coaches, and General Managers (28-0). This notice caused a lot of disturbance, because a lot of players, through their social media, say that they not gonna play if NBA return on July 31, the reasons of this decision range from the increase of covid-19 cases in USA, to the persistent of racial inequality and all the protests in the country, where a lot of players have actively participated.

     

The problem here is big, for a lot of reasons, one is that a lot of players that now declare that, they dont wanna play, voted for a comeback in that 28-0,  but theres a lot of players that declare dont feel represented by the sindicate, because the sindicate is commanded by super star players with a different contractual situations. The second thing, is that, since the comeback was approved, the place that gonna embrace all this people was defined too, and the place selected is DisneyWorld in Orlando, since the decision, the starts of a lot of buildings, the courts, the rooms, places to rest, to train, and a very long etc, which involves a lot of money, and a lot of jobs. 

                                 

 

Other big thing, is about the contractual situation in te NBA, if players decide not to play (considering the 28-0 approval) General Managers can apply a law, called lockout, and among other things, influence the contractual clauses of workers and players. This is the most feared situation in this moment. 

  

This debate has no end yet, but everything indicates that NBA will return in July 31, unless a notice like a whole team infected with covid-19.

For me its truly a big deal this, because, for one side i love the NBA and i really want to see the guys playing again, a lot of players wants too, and the stop of the season was because coronavirus, not because players decide to stop their activities for protests, but in the other side  its make a lot of sense stop for that reason, the big deal is all the jobs and contracts that arose in this period by the return of the season of the NBA, i think players should have discussed this before the 28-0 vote, because now its really very difficult to stop the return.

 I want to this resolve in the best way, and i really want to see LeBron winning a championship, maybe the best in this horrible year.

   

Thanks for reading!