Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Anthony Vito]

NBA gets a Water Park ?

Robin Lopez is all for that:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273043031508299780

Hmmm, I wonder if they go online to select colors or if they are all gray. What happens when they try to order premium bands and they go in and out of stock while the page is refreshed.

Who am I kidding? They will get special team or other logo branded ones.

I wonder if the Lopez twins will bring some from their likely large collection of MagicBands.

 

[Mit88]

Ok, going to hurt my shoulder patting myself on the back here, but . . . I WAS SAYING THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO!!! I posted it in about 5 different places and websites, even tweeted it to Keith Smith. I was saying that if this works out, then I could see it essentially being an audition for Disney to host the in-season tournament that Adam Silver (NBA commissioner) has been proposing in some form. I should be covering the NBA . I should have sent it to even more NBA reporters - maybe I would've gotten a minor and meaningless internet acknowledgement.

They’ve been discussing in season Tournaments



https://www.nba.com/article/2019/12/20/nba-proposes-78-game-season-among-changes

IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT
The proposal calls for teams to play eight divisional games in the group stage of the event, which would begin Nov. 24, 2021 and continue through Dec. 11. (The NBA said the dates are tentative.) The group stage games - four home, four away - would count toward a team's regular-season total.

The six division winners and two wild cards would qualify for the quarterfinals on Dec. 13 and 14, 2021. Semifinals would be played as a doubleheader on Dec. 16 and the title game would be played two days later - with the semis and finals at a neutral site like Las Vegas. Players on the winning team would split $15 million; the winning coaching staff would split $1.5 million.

The NBA said that there is the potential for "additional prizing for players on the remaining final four teams" and that other incentives for teams and fans were "to be determined."

 

[GusGusTheMouse]

They’d be out of GF by around August 20th. So everything before that would likely be cancelled, and the future dates I’m sure will be determined later

Cancelling a family vacation for the NBA is one thing, but cancelling a wedding? Disney better be happy Im not getting married there or they would have this attorney all over their butts.

 

[Mit88]

Cancelling a family vacation for the NBA is one thing, but cancelling a wedding? Disney better be happy Im not getting married there or they would have this attorney all over their butts.

My sister is a wedding photographer, I can tell you, there are a lot of wedding venues that have had to cancel or reschedule because of all of this, unfortunately. It’s not just Disney

 

[AmberMV]

Cancelling a family vacation for the NBA is one thing, but cancelling a wedding? Disney better be happy Im not getting married there or they would have this attorney all over their butts.

I really do feel for you, it's a sad situation and I hope you do have a magical wedding eventually, but Disney is private property and they have copy/pasted they have the right to change anything at any time for any reason they wish

 

[GusGusTheMouse]

My sister is a wedding photographer, I can tell you, there are a lot of wedding venues that have had to cancel or reschedule because of all of this, unfortunately. It’s not just Disney

Because of the NBA? I am a COVID-19 bride so I know a lot is being cancelled, but this would be because of them hosting the NBA...

 

[Anthony Vito]

Outdoors courts mainly

Yeah, I was thinking those tennis courts off to the side could easily be used for basketball courts.

I'm going to have to disagree on this one. I would think they'd bring basketball court floors into the convention center there. I just don't see any way in the world they possibly let their players practice on any kind of outdoor court during the postseason. There's just way too much of injury risk. Tennis courts that are not perfectly maintained will have uneven spots, and outdoor basketball courts have more injury risk because it's different footing/traction and you don't want to fall on an outdoor court, so falls are more awkward (and bloody).

The players are also not going to want to be having to adjust their feel of everything for that in the midst of the playoffs. There would be a competitive disadvantage in that for the team using it.

 

[mmackeymouse]

The NBA deal is the reason Disney is the last theme park to reopen, by a long shot, and fulfills the promise Disney execs promised their shareholders in that they will be profitable when they reopen. The NBA deal was worth ALL of June and first half of July's "regular guest" money.

I'm not mad about it. All businesses need to make money to float, esp in these current times. But this is likely the truth behind their actions.

I get that. The thing is...I think in every relationship, and in this case business deal, there is a reacher and a settler. (Thanks, HIMYM) One party is the one with just a little more power/leverage than the other.

Now personally, considering this is Disney's property, I would prefer to see Disney as the Alpha. They are the one that the NBA, MLS, and any other entity, should aspire to make a deal with. Disney should be THEIR goal....not the other way around.

But, right now, it feels like Disney is the reacher. Disney is the one begging for their business. The NBA has all the leverage, and I am sure they realize it.

 

[Mit88]

Because of the NBA? I am a COVID-19 bride so I know a lot is being cancelled, but this would be because of them hosting the NBA...

They would easily just say that they wouldnt have felt safe to reopen it, even if it weren’t for the NBA.

 

[Anthony Vito]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273045894288609281

Well, we can see Robin Lopez likes Yacht Club.

 

[rteetz]

I'm going to have to disagree on this one. I would think they'd bring basketball court floors into the convention center there. I just don't see any way in the world they possibly let their players practice on any kind of outdoor court during the postseason. There's just way too much of injury risk. Tennis courts that are not perfectly maintained will have uneven spots, and outdoor basketball courts have more injury risk because it's different footing/traction and you don't want to fall on an outdoor court, so falls are more awkward (and bloody).

The players are also not going to want to be having to adjust their feel of everything for that in the midst of the playoffs. There would be a competitive disadvantage in that for the team using it.

Not saying they won’t use the convention center too but they will be using outdoor courts there.

 

[GusGusTheMouse]

I really do feel for you, it's a sad situation and I hope you do have a magical wedding eventually, but Disney is private property and they have copy/pasted they have the right to change anything at any time for any reason they wish

I’m thankfully not a WDW bride, just honeymooner. I am just thinking of all the couples that had hope after hearing the parks were opening in July. I honestly never thought the GF would be an option.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273045894288609281

Well, we can see Robin Lopez likes Yacht Club.

He’s really a Poly fan first based on previous tweets.

 

[Anthony Vito]

They’d be out of GF by around August 20th. So everything before that would likely be cancelled, and the future dates I’m sure will be determined later

Wouldn't it be closer to the end of August? They'll still be using 2 resorts until after the first round, which doesn't start until 8/18.

 

[Krandor]

I’m thankfully not a WDW bride, just honeymooner. I am just thinking of all the couples that had hope after hearing the parks were opening in July. I honestly never thought the GF would be an option.

I'm sorry but anybody who thought when it was announced parks were opening in July that weddings were on as normal was not thinking straight.

I was an April cancellation and only rebooted due to FD bounceback but even then I wasn't touching June or July. I went all the way to September as a chance most likely to be able to happen (and still not sure if I'll take it). That was april. Anybody that heard in June that parks were opening July and still thought a wedding was likely was just delusional at that point. That was never in the cards for July.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

NBA will have space at ESPN and in convention centers. They won't be using the hotel fitness centers as far as I know.

What about access to GF for Poly guests (walkway would need to be open)?

 

[Mit88]

Wouldn't it be closer to the end of August? They'll still be using 2 resorts until after the first round, which doesn't start until 8/18.

You might be right. In that case it wouldnt be until the first week of September, maybe the end of August depending on how long the series goes in each of the 4 matchups.

 

[Krandor]

Wouldn't it be closer to the end of August? They'll still be using 2 resorts until after the first round, which doesn't start until 8/18.

But after first round each team can add 17 additional rooms for family and friends so that will be close to a wash on rooms if all are used. So you are looking at after second round probbaly before they give up GF.

 

[Anthony Vito]

They’ve been discussing in season Tournaments



https://www.nba.com/article/2019/12/20/nba-proposes-78-game-season-among-changes

IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT
The proposal calls for teams to play eight divisional games in the group stage of the event, which would begin Nov. 24, 2021 and continue through Dec. 11. (The NBA said the dates are tentative.) The group stage games - four home, four away - would count toward a team's regular-season total.

The six division winners and two wild cards would qualify for the quarterfinals on Dec. 13 and 14, 2021. Semifinals would be played as a doubleheader on Dec. 16 and the title game would be played two days later - with the semis and finals at a neutral site like Las Vegas. Players on the winning team would split $15 million; the winning coaching staff would split $1.5 million.

The NBA said that there is the potential for "additional prizing for players on the remaining final four teams" and that other incentives for teams and fans were "to be determined."

Exactly - that's what I was referring to - but I've been saying how this is a chance for Disney to show it should be held in Orlando each year. I hadn't seen that mentioned with all of this anywhere else that this could be an audition essentially for Disney, and a chance for the NBA to show how doing a single site tournament could work (obviously much shorter time period and smaller scale for the in-season one).

 

[Krandor]

Exactly - that's what I was referring to - but I've been saying how this is a chance for Disney to show it should be held in Orlando each year. I hadn't seen that mentioned with all of this anywhere else that this could be an audition essentially for Disney, and a chance for the NBA to show how doing a single site tournament could work (obviously much shorter time period and smaller scale for the in-season one).

And on the same front if this MLS tournament goes well I could see them doing something similar again. MLS isn't the same money as NBA but still Disney would love to do an annual professional soccer tournament (or even once every other year) if it could be worked out.