Tag: NBA 2020-21 Season

NBA fans are debating whether Paul George’s new $190 million extension with the Clippers was worth it

Man, that’s a lot of money.

Paul George said he wanted to be a Clipper for the rest of his career. He may have just gotten his wish on Thursday.

Despite him just had one of the roughest postseasons of his career last season with his play in the NBA bubble, the Clippers made it clear they still believe in him.

George signed a four year, $190 million extension that will keep him with the Clippers until, at the very least, the 2024 season, according to reports from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. He has a player option for the 2024-25 season. So, basically, if he plays this deal out, he’ll have a chance to retire a Clipper.

George could’ve potentially entered free agency next season with a player option in the final year of his deal. This extension wipes that away.

And it’s a lot of money. George will make nearly $50 million in the last year of the deal.

This was surprising news, to say the least, after this postseason for the Clippers where they blew a 3-1 series lead to the Denver Nuggets. Yes, he had a subpar playoff showing. But facts are still facts and George is still an All-Star with an All-NBA pedigree. He’s one of the NBA’s best defenders and he’s still a versatile player offensively.

It makes sense to lock him up long term. Especially when it means that he doesn’t have to worry about his contract and can now just focus on gelling with the rest of the Clippers.

Still, though, after his postseason, NBA fans from all over were mostly confused. It got so bad that “Pandemic P” trended on Twitter after the news broke.

Some fans think he’s totally worth the ticket. Others? Not so much.

Every NBA schedule reveal tweet from the league’s teams, ranked

These are fun.

The NBA is back. Well, it will be soon, anyway. Training camps around the league are already underway and the preseason tips off on December 11.

So, of course, with the season right around the corner the NBA and its teams finally unveiled the first half of the new schedule to the public. There are marquee games all over the place.

Some of the league’s teams really got into their creative bag to reveal their first half schedule to us. Many of them made graphics and videos that are actually pretty entertaining.

We’ve ranked every single one of them right here for you. Here are the best NBA schedule reveals for the  2020-21 season.

NBA tells all 30 teams they can open practice facilities for small workouts

The NBA is telling their teams they can now open their practice facilities for workouts of no more than 10 people, according to Shams Charania.

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While many of the conversations about the NBA have been about when the league will start and how long the season is, there is the other matter that players have effectively been kept away from the office of the team practice facility and have been forced into gyms that are outside of the NBA sphere. But that is now a thing of the past.

Shams Charania of The Athletic/Stadium reported on Friday that the NBA is now allowing all 30 teams in the league to open the practice facility for players to have workouts. However, those workouts will still be limited to no more than 10 people as coronavirus cases around the country are steadily rising.

It remains to be seen when the NBA will come back but they are still waiting until they get closer to actual gameplay before they are going to allow teams to have full scrimmages and other types of group workouts. That they can play in some small groups instead of only individual workouts, however, is a sign that the NBA has learned where they can make some changes to the protocols used to help finish the end of the previous season.

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