and say that for 20 million more you can have John Wall for four years

Playing this cover in Orlando is obviously not free for the Great League. ESPN announces that the NBA will spend more than $ 150 million in organizing this reboot. Quite exorbitant amount at first glance, but necessary so as not to aggravate the losses.

Franchises invited for the takeover will soon be flying to Orlando. The schedule is known, the accommodation conditions or the tests to be taken as well, more information should still arrive on this Orlando bubble. And obviously, the organization of this end of season at Walt Disney World Resort will cost the League a few dollars … several million dollars even. ESPN reports that the NBA will spend more than … 150 million dollars. At that price, we might as well not invite the Cavs, the Pistons and the other bad students, we just want the cream of the crop. But it’s expensive to stay at Mickey’s. This expense was certainly not budgeted, the stoppage of the season and a global pandemic either. If Mark Cuban admitted that this reboot was also a question of money, Adam Silver specifies, in an interview for the magazine of the Time, that the takeover was not (only) a question of dollars.

“It appears that we felt obligated, for our sport and for our business, to find a solution. It’s not all about the money because, frankly, it’s not very economical for us to play in these conditions. It is extremely expensive. “

What if Adam Silver had turned into Scrooge Uncle? There is no doubt that the accountants of the NBA have not been idle in recent months. The price is exorbitant, but let’s remember completely free of charge that seeing John Wall not playing for the Wizards costs even more. Brian Windhorst also specifies that in this amount are counted meals, daily tests or transport services. The League expected, before organizing this end of the season, to lose more than a billion dollars due to the stoppage of the season, and the recovery is a desperate way to avoid getting worse and sheltering for the next few years. If the NBA will not make a profit on the tickets sold because of the closed door, the franchises nevertheless secure television revenues and several hundred million dollars on the salaries of the players. We must save the NBA soldier!

Now ? We wish everyone a good recovery… and that the show is there. At that price, that’s all you ask for.

Source texts: Brian Windhorst – ESPN

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