What Happens to the NBA for Next Season?

Frankly, I don't care, and haven't watched a single NBA game in the past five years (I admit this).  Back in the 1980s.....I probably watched sixty to seventy games every year (that includes the champion series).  At some point toward the 1990s...I started to lose interest, and this grew every single season. 

So I'll go and suggest these five things occurring as we enter the next NBA season:

1.  Viewership on TV marginally returns.   

2.  Owners start to have round-table meetings to discuss the way to recover.  Certain behavioral issues with the players will be topic number one.  

3.  At least two teams will be on the sell-list, and active interest from China will occur....in bringing the teams there.  

4.  I don't expect much recovery on numbers for the next season's round in the championship series and viewers.  

5.  Finally, several players looking for new contracts will find limited interest in long-term contracts, or high-pay deals.  Owners won't engage in big conversations over this issue.

So I'll go to the main topic....the TV contract is the only thing holding the league to a profitable brand.  When this contract ends....there's trouble brewing.  Oddly enough, a Chinese TV contract might actually save the league.  

Joe and Hunter

 1.  This laptop business....how weird is it?

Repair guy is given the laptop....now admits it might not have been Hunter who said 'repair' it.  Water damaged?  That's the claim, on how it was damaged.  What happened here?  Just me guessing....but I think around December of last year....Hunter went and dumped the laptop into the bay, to ensure it didn't fall into the wrong hands.  Some guy witnessed this, and had a scuba-buddy drag it out.  The rest of this story by the repair guy....I suspect....is made up.  

2.  This appointment chatter that Hunter arranged the meeting with 'Dad' and the Ukrainian business guy?  

Joe says nothing on the official calendar, so it didn't happen.  Find the Secret Service schedule and ask them on this particular day.....did Joe have this particular meeting?  My guess is that for 30 minutes....some meeting did occur.  Secret Service won't know with who....that's the chief problem.

3.  The Twitter and Facebook development trying to control the story?

Too late.  

4.  Are we at the end of all the Hunter issues now? 

Doubtful.  There's still potential for another mess or two to clean up.

5.  Hurting Joe?

At this point, I suspect that 99-percent of folks who are pro-Joe...will stick with him.  Across the nation, on independent voters....there might be 200,000 votes that shift now....at best.