What if roster moves were kept hidden until opening day
just imagine tuning in for hornets vs wizards thinking everything is normal and lebron just walks out with a hornets jersey and starts warming up
adam silver can make this happen
Going to the smoothie king center and it’s the exact same 26 win roster
They’re gonna be better man. They’re gonna win 35
meet in the middle at 30?
in the next two years
Except Zion is 20 pounds heavier and they’ve added a 40 year old to their roster
and they’ve added a 40 year old to their roster
Congrats on getting LeBron!
makes sense since moves stay hidden till opening day
this is a dumb idea.
this is also kinda funny.
Might have been viable in 1930 but not after the wide adoption of radios and telephones post-WW2.
Explain to me like I’m five how it’s dumb. It’s marketing genius.
Logistically how do you hide these players 😭😭😭 NBA players don’t exactly blend in with the general public
walker kestler and Mitchell Robinson trying to hide all day is so funny to imagine
Inferring that James Harden got traded from your team because your local strip club went out of business
Yeah, we live in an interconnected world where people obsess over whether or not neighbors in an Akron town got cookies.
Absolutely no way this could be hidden but also. Like do the teams themselves know. Could you imagine if everyone was still trying to trade for Giannis.
Would trades be final before starting day? Like pull an old lakers and claim they found some undisclosed medical issues. Then cancel the trade? Messing up everyone trade lined up?
imagine your local strip club went out of business while James Harden lived in that city. its just not gonna happen
Opening day ends up being opening month, 1 game each day and every player attends each game until the one they play in.
NOW we’re cooking with gas
They can make an event out of it. Like the Harlem Globetrotters and the generals. Could imagine right before they take the court. Or like right before they check in. They just like ripped the old jersey off, and said “psych, I play for the other team suckas.”
Make it like the bachelor or some reality show. Making all the players go into a “confession” room. Detailing all of the happenings over the summer.
Like an NBA sanction version of “the decision.”
Brother, NBA players are not assets you can hide in a suitcase, they happen to be professional human beings who can actually go out.
The NBA players themselves wouldn’t have to hide or be locked in their houses. Many of them live in a different city than their NBA team during the offseason anyway.
WWE can do it. Sometimes. NBA just adds a 2 week sequester of all players in nyc once preseason starts, practice and games not televised. before the season starts send team planes keep players secret. It could work. I’m not saying it would but it absolutely could
Now we’d need to look at cost vs benefits. Is it with the NBA advantage to profit off of off-season free agency and the trade market? All trade to be held and submitted right before pre-season starts and all being finalized before seasons starts which happen in an environment similar to the bubble but this massive come and find out type thing. Like a yearly decision event.
Reinstate the bubble.
Because the media’s job is to report things, they’re going to miss out on a lot of money by not reporting these spicy news stories. I also think that it helps sell tickets; there are probably a lot of people out there ready to buy tickets for LeBron’s first game on whatever team he ends up on.
It actually sounds pretty cool to me. Less drama which I know wouldn’t interest this sub at all
Seeing PG3 on the C’s and thinking ‘we must have got sooo many draft picks’
This would be the most WWE shit ever. Life is too short, I’ll sign the petition
Opening night vs Boston, MSG. They announce Robinson and he emerges from the Boston locker room. Fucking chaos!
If they’re going full WWE, it’s going to be David Robinson coming out.
I’ve always said trades should be announced like a royal rumble entrant. Imagine the lights went out and Luka’s music hit in LA and he runs out ready to play. Do it mid-game for a bigger pop
imagining a jazz fan going to opening night seeing jjj as their starting center
They would’ve knew that since last February as that’s when the trade happened
Although maybe at halftime Austin Ainge can walk with a briefcase, open it, and it’s cards with the Lakers logo that says “2031 First round pick”, and the other picks from the Kessler trade to show the return that Austin got from the Kessler trade
I think their point is that JJJ is not starting at the 5 if Kessler is still on the team.
I’m pretty sure that Nurk will be the starting center and Ace will be coming off the bench, no?
probably but jjj as the 5 was funnier to imagine
It’s more about JJJ and Lauri both ideally being stretch 4s, so you’re either playing JJJ at centre or Lauri at the 3, and deciding which is the lesser of 2 evils.
Really, I think they should have re-signed Kessler, and traded Lauri (probably well past his peak value), but that’s a different conversation.
jjj is an amazing rim protecting 4 probably right next to chet there but as a 5 it gets real spooky fast
Traded Lauri??? That’s a hot take ngl.
It’d be impossible to pull off in this day and age but opening night of the NBA season might become the biggest sporting event in America if that happened
Imagine the Celtics and Paul George runs out
They’re crashing out super hard on the Celtics subreddit so I rather not, like I would actually fear for PG’s life at that point.
Not as shocked as Jaylen BROWN flops ouut of the tunnel with Embiid
Sixers fans would pop off when then they see Brown walk out with the starting 5 instead of PG
Shams would make sure to ruin it
The gambling would reach peak levels
I actually have a story that kind of relates to this.
I don’t use Instagram or any of those social media apps, and I live in a city where basketball is pretty irrelevant. Our team plays in the second division here (there’s the top division, which is the fully professional one that’s televised and everything, and then there are two divisions below it). Most players only sign one-season contracts, so it’s pretty rare for someone to stay longer than that.
Anyway, when this season started, I went to the fifth or sixth game and kept thinking, “Who the hell is this guy?” because teams here usually replace like 90% of their roster every year.
It ended up being such an interesting and exciting experience because I genuinely had no idea how my team was going to play. During the offseason I had no clue who was coming or leaving, so instead of getting excited, disappointed, or judgmental about signings and departures, I just got to experience the team for what it was. I learned to fall in love with the team simply because of how they played together, instead of constantly speculating about roster changes.
Thos only works if players had their own entrance music like professional wrestlers
Could you imagine the reaction in Minnesota when Lamelo’s music hits? It would be epic
Kawhi in a Raps jersey again would be a wild one
Boston might burn to the ground
It would remind me of life in the 90’s without the internet, and not knowing much offseason stuff
I mean, newspapers, sports articles, TV, and magazines still existed lol.
I mean the dallas morning news wasn’t telling me much about the suns. :p
Yeah that fair.
I will say, I kept up as much as I could but unless it was a big name like Barkley or something, I was clueless on offseason stuff.
Reading comprehension is hard
This would be so fun.
That’s probably how people lived before the internet, tv or the newspaper.
i just spent big money for some HORNETS season tickets. lets go baby. playoff run starts today!!!
Discontinue the lithium
Nico would have been genuinely assassinated
that one was midseason tho
nico would wait until the offseason with this rule. my GOAT would want to unveil his vision in the most exciting way possible 🙏
Honestly if it was just 1 year this happened I’d be down.
Oh you like secrets huh, i like that🫣
Opening night ticket sales and ratings would be through the roof
Sounds like a regulation sports improvement to me
All players on first day of the season have to eat a pencil
The NBA would lose tons and tons and tons of content
Would low key love the chaos this would cause
This is just the life of a casual fan before the internet.
You assume it can ever be kept hidden at all. If this was all sort of hush hush, like zero online noise, then one day JB learns he’s traded to the Sixers and he’s gonna go ballistic online. Even without confirming the trade, people are going to speculate. AND THAT’S A BIG IF. It’s likely he’ll just out right say FK THE TEAM and leak it already anyway. AND, consequently, the gossiping about these off season movements are gonna be a lot messier.
These mouthpiece journalists reporters are gonna much more aggressive in being the first to even hint at anything.
The moment Giannis booked a flight to Miami for no reason, or Lamelo sighting in Minnesota, anything, people will be grasping for any whisper of info like this. That it might as well be public anyway.
I too also have Twitter and saw that viral tweet
No way players would be able to keep quiet and not leak shit out.
We would see footage from training camp and preseason and know already bro
It’s like Ric Flair just showing up in the WWF in 1992 with the WCW Belt
imagine if this happens and then LeBron walks out in a Lakers uniform cause he re-signed on a minimum lmao
u/swaggyfroge for commissioner
You think the league can contain Shams? That guy would leak it before the trades happen…
I can only imagine being a Heat fan and seeing Giannis Antetokounmpo walk out of the tunnel, followed by Lebron James.
The tweets about this are crazy lol
Then people cant keep track of anything and youll only get more confused looks rather than excitement. Also missing out on all the trade rumours and actual trades happening. Itll backfire hard
Shams would spoil each lineup 30 minutes before each game started