re: All nba games postponed tonight

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Zero chance they do that.

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I don't know about that. At a certain point, violations need to have an effect or you've lost control of the league. And it certainly seems like the NBA players refusing to play in the playoffs would fit that description.

So, you either hit the reset button or keep going down a rabbit hole where you increasingly lose control.

And the billionaire owners can last longer than the millionaire players. That's always the problem with CBA negotiations; the owners have already steeled themselves for some financial pain; they might feel it is worth a bit more for a change to a more owner favorable CBA.

Unlikely to happen, but not impossible.

From Hoops Hype:
What would happen if the NBA canceled the 2019-20 season?

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If the season gets canceled, players would lose $1.2 billion in salary (or 35 percent of their total pay), according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Also, the NBA would lose $2 billion in revenue, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks. NBA agents have been delivering “stern warnings” to their players recently, explaining “the financial implications of a lost season,” writes Wojnarowski.

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Right now, the CBA is relatively player-friendly, but that could change if the season is canceled and the CBA is ripped up.

“Already, the NBA and NBPA have to negotiate a long list of financial and competitive items to account for the loss of revenue,” Wojnarowski wrote in a recent ESPN article. “But agents expect that the league would react to the cancellation of this season by blowing up the CBA, locking out the players and moving to implement a more unfavorable financial share of basketball-related income, which is now essentially a 50-50 split.”

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