The Bucks Stock Market is a fictitious market run by the GSPN crew that tracks player stock “movement” following the conclusion of every game. Here’s the spreadsheet logging the game-by-game results.
This game had an unsurprising result. Milwaukee was on a back-to-back with four players in health and safety protocols and an additional two players out to injury. Also, Jrue Holiday was technically active, but after logging over 44 minutes last night, Budenholzer (understandably) didn’t play him. All of these factors results in only one stock movement following this game: Adam Silver 📉.
What are we doing here? At the time this is being written, 18 teams currently have at least one player currently in the health and safety protocols, with eight of those teams having at least four players in the protocols. One of those teams, the Chicago Bulls, have had two games postponed. This is all happening as the NBA is reportedly trying to devise literally any other plan besides having to postpone any more games. But the product that Silver is trying to preserve is actively highlighting the problem that they don’t want to see the light.
Take this Bucks-Cavs game as an example. Anyone who follows the NBA knew exactly what the outcome would be, and that came to fruition. It was always going to be a beatdown by the Cavaliers. Only one player for Cleveland had to play more than 30 minutes in this game, and that was the budding star in Darius Garland. On Milwaukee’s end, both two-way players had to play over 40 minutes because the Bucks just didn’t have the bodies to put together competent lineups. This is what the NBA refuses to stop?
The obvious answer here is a pause to the NBA season with mandatory quarantines until more strict testing regimens are implemented, but that would take too much money away from the league that projected itself to bring in $10 billion in revenue this season.