Trade Harden Fast! NBA About to put GPS on players!

It says it doesn’t tract their locations but gives notifications on who they come within 6ft of when doing team events, so this is to improve on things like what happened with Houston where there was a infected person who came in contact within multiple players/staff, It’s seems like doing too much but it isn’t the dystopian thing it reads to be.

 

Thanks for the visual, lmao!!!!!

 

I hope the players have the guts to speak out about this and not just sitting back accepting whatever.

 

Doesn't the NFL do this already? I remember early in the season, they showed a bracelet worn by coaches and the announcers talked about contact tracing. Not sure if the same thing as this article describes though.

 

James Harden is here to stay !

5 more years of being bounced out of the 1st or 2nd rd with Hero ball and taking bad shots. Enjoy!

The rockets have 0 draft collateral as they think there a championship team lol,,

Will introduce 5 new 2nd rounder guys who all look like Moochie Norris in 4-5 years when this team is beat and Harden retires.

 

You have always been a prime example of why @Le$$ isn’t always more

 

Spoiler

 

I will see you come playoffs time . I just dont bellive , i want to belive seriously. I dont hate harden, its just we seen this year after year. He shrinks come playoffs time, do you harden followers only not remember this???

 

Australia do it and we have no problems........why do Americans always object to things that will help ? it helps track people incase there is a breakout somewhere. You can get notified easier if that happens

 

when was the last time we lost in the first round ?

 

NFL, SEC, and PAC12 are already using this.

3/4 of the NBA already use this technology before the pandemic to get advanced data of player movement during practices and games. By implanting the device in player shorts and at various locations around the court, the team is able to see how how and where players move in game as well as physiological data. https://kinexon.com/solutions/basketball

 

Asking NBA players to wear the equivalent of ankle monitors is an insult that is typically reserved for criminals. They don't trust the players and believe they have to be their nannies. So many people are getting red-pilled over all the intrusions on our privacy that the government and large organizations are trying to implement... Hopefully enough people speak up before we are all dependent upon the government for everything.

 

People don't want to be tracked.

Why say any more? Thats it.

I have complex thoughts about Covid but I generally try to be pragmatic. Anyone who uses the constitution to argue against masks loses all credibility to me, especially libertarians that aren't familiar with the harm principle, and conservatives that never once mentioned the constitution during such things as the "Patriot" Act. However, in this case I think this is an expensive and heavy handed approach to solving a symptom but not a root cause. It seems that its purpose is more to punish and cover legal bases than it is to save anyone or anything. Feels punitive more than it does effective. In the end, the NBA as an organization is working this out with the people it is contractually involved with, so go for it. But intellectually, it seems questionable.

 

According to what I read a while back , several NFL teams , including the Texans had this "contact tracing tech" at least thru training camp. I don't know if they are still using them or not.

 

Sensationalizing much? They already did something similar during the bubble and it's only for team organized events.

 

In the end, people who favor locking down businesses and asking healthy people to quarantine in the name of "science" simply want to avoid the hard issue and have it be settled for them. They don't want to tackle the difficult moral question at the heart of the issue:

Do you?
A) Protect 80+ year old sick people from catching the virus, and in so doing, wreck the economy, destroy businesses and jobs, and seriously damage families' quality of life?

Or do you B) Maintain a high standard of living for healthy people, but increase the risk to the elderly and infirm by carrying on as a normal-functioning society?

Sadly, we as a society are not mature enough to have this discussion.

 

Your premise is OK but you do yourself a disservice painting option A in a very biased light (its about a lot more than just 80 year olds. We all know at risk people). So yes, I prefer option B but you have also proven that society is too immature to have this conversation. Very meta. Well done.

 

Lol nice try. Most probationers and parolees don't even have to submit to this level of monitoring.

 

If Stone wants Harden to stay, he’s gonna have to put in that work.

 

@napalm06

I don’t this is a punitive measure, I think is to prevent holding mass players/staffers in quarantine from being “exposed” to someone they potentially didn’t come within 10 feet of.

This could be a direct result of the Houston fiasco, what if Cousins/Wall/Jones didn’t come into contact with Martin/Mac, but were held out of 2 games, and had a game canceled due to being in the same general location. This measure theoretically could have saved us from canceling a game, and perhaps effected our opening record of 0-2

I agree that this sounds like it’s over the top, but I’m sure the nba measured the risks and decided it was worth it. Players have a powerful union, if this was a big problem for them we would be hearing about it, a lot of players, like Wall and Cousins, might actually be in favor of this.