Only Eight NBA Teams Left Mid-September, 100% Chance of MLB Season
A 22-team restart is set for the NBA in Orlando. And by mid-September it looks like only eight teams will remain.
Latest Odds to Win the 2020 NBA Championship
From ESPN.com:
The NBA has been working to make clear to players that the actual commitment of time for most teams in Orlando may be less daunting than originally perceived, especially once seen in the context of the timetables constructed into the league's revised schedule.
The six teams eliminated after eight regular-season games and a possible play-in tournament for the No. 8 seed would leave Orlando within 35 to 40 days, sources said.
The NBA expects the conference finals will end within a maximum of 82 days, leaving the two NBA finalists, sources said. The league expects the NBA Finals could start by Sept. 30.
Let's look at the odds to win the 2020 NBA Championship:
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- Sources: 14 of 22 NBA Teams in Orlando Will Be Done Within 53 Days
- Manfred: "100 Percent Chance" of an MLB Season
Unless you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, there is a coronavirus pandemic that has forced the postponement of Major League Baseball. Coupled with salary and financial concerns, there has been a question as to whether the MLB season will even commence this year at all.
Commissioner Rob Manfred has confirmed that it will, "100 percent".
“We’re going to play baseball in 2020, 100 percent,” Manfred said during an interview with MLB Network that aired shortly before the start of the MLB draft. “One way or another, we’re playing Major League Baseball.”
He wants to avoid an abbreviated season.
The players offered a counter-proposal to the owners Tuesday that suggested an 89-game season and full, prorated salaries for those games. The owners have wanted to shrink the cost of salaries, repackaging the same spending over and over again in their proposals -- which have included gradations of pay cuts and even a far shorter season.
Manfred told MLB Network that the owners would have a reply for the union in the near future.
He added that the owners’ next proposal “moves in the player direction in terms of salary.”
- Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
