NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he would cancel the season if his players’ fitness threatened him and talks about protocols in position for the NBA bubble in Florida.
In 1987, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl and their quarterback Phil Simms uttered immortal words: “I’m going to Disney World!”
Thus began a tradition, which continues to this day: the Super Bowl MVP has repeated the line and then celebrated with a parade at the Disney Park of his choice.
Over the next two and a half months, all basketball players will live at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and had nothing to gain to get there.
But it’s not necessarily the emotion you can think of; in fact, some, such as LeBron James of the Lakers and Damian Lillard of the Trail Blazers, have compared it to a criminal sentencing, either jargon on social media, saying they were willing to “make an offer.”
Welcome to Disney World! Or, until mid-October, “Get in the ‘NBA bubble’!”
Being called a stretch in the articulation is not the kind of gratitude the NBA expected when it fought the biggest logistical challenge in the league’s 74-year history: how to resume and end a season amid a global pandemic in a country that has fought in the opposite match of Covid-19.
Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown received a more positive account.
“I think what the NBA Array has done … around where we’re all in is spectacularly brilliant,” Brown told reporters. “I think it’s an elite: I don’t have any court cases about anything that can save us from doing our job.”
And according to UFC chief Dana White, the “bubble” technique is the last path to American sport.
“This isn’t going to work outside of a bubble,” White told CNN Sport earlier this week after the UFC staged a series of bouts on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
“You have to have the bubble, you have to block other people, other people can’t sneak in, other people can’t go home. You know, in Abu Dhabi, the other people [who worked with the UFC] … haven’t noticed their families for two months.”
So far, the NBA technique turns out to be working. On Wednesday, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the players’ union announced that none of the 344 players evaluated since July 20 had tested positive for coronavirus.
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The NBA Inner Sanctuary includes 22 groups and more than 350 players, located in 3 hotels that are within walking distance of its facilities and educational locations on game day. No one will leave early for behavior; in fact, the more you play, the longer you stay.
While there have been some court cases about the diversity of food options, Disney’s bubble in the NBA is evidently a prison.
The Pacers power forward Ty Leaf said, “Given all the circumstances, they’ve done a really good job. I mean, it’s not easy throwing together events at this magnitude.”
Josh Reaves of the Mavericks described it as “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, hotels are great, amenities are great,” while Spurs’ Jakob Peltl said he “surprised positively,” added the warning: “We’ll see how long it takes before we get mad at each other.
Technically, it’s a “bubble” either; NBA commissioner Adam Silver resisted describing it as such because it is “hermetically sealed.”
As Richaun Holmes, from downtown Sacramento Kings, discovered, coming out of the bubble is easy; going home is a lot.
Holmes veered to the perimeter line to pick up a food delivery, quarantined it for an era of 10 days. In addition to the first two days, the player spent time in solitary confinement when he arrived in early July.
The Pelicans’ most productive draft selection, Zion Williamson, is one of many players who have already left the bubble for family reasons, and everyone who leaves knows they will be quarantined before returning.
The rules are incredibly detailed; It took the NBA no less than 113 pages to identify the law in a manual that was distributed to each team.
Apparently, all considered; for example, a deck of cards with teammates is acceptable, but only through a face mask and understanding that the game is removed at the end.
You can play golf, but you can’t have a caddie. Do not shower in the education and gambling facilities, only back to your team’s hotel, where no towels or deodorant will be shared and, in an Orwellian turn, there is an unnamed referral line to report any violations.
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Barely a handful of journalists are allowed on site and they’ve had to sign what the New York Times’ Marc Stein described as ‘unprecedented waivers,’ so much of what the outside world is learning of the bubble experience is coming from the players via remote press conferences or the clips they are posting on social media.
The specially designed hairdresser turns out to be a huge hit with players: “Everyone in the NBA is excited about hairdressing,” said current MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Meanwhile, the unofficial beer drink festival is proving popular with fans; Pelican’s guard, JJ Redick, started with a Bud Light in an ice bath, and the ever-competitive heat of the leonard Meyers took on Redick’s challenge by polishing a Coors Light in just over 3 sips.
Glenn Robinson III of the 76ers thanked his mother for finishing a care package, magician Isaac Bonga said he plans to order a keyboard so he can paint his chords, but the only thing they will have to give up for now is company: visitors are not allowed before the first playoff circular in late August.
Charismatic analyst Stephen A. Smith believes it will be too long for some of those red-blooded men.
“Guys who are married without their wives, guys who aren’t married without their wives. You think they’re honoring a bubble for three months? Smith told ESPN.
Smith would possibly feel partially justified after Clippers’ escort Lou Williams was seen at an Atlanta strip club for a justified absence, so he can also attend a funeral.
Williams welcomed Orlando with a 10-day quarantine era and, as a result, he will miss the first two games.
“For the first time in league history, a player is guaranteed to miss an official NBA quarantine game,” said NBA veteran Shaun Powell.
Williams admitted to NBA security that he went to Magic City, a local strip club, while on justified permission. The league was suspicious when Jack Harlow, a rapper, posted a photo of him and Williams, dressed in an NBA-issued face mask, at the social media club on Thursday before cutting it.
Williams said on social media that it was food in Magic City more than adult entertainment that attracted him to the club.
“Ask one of my teammates what my favorite place to eat in Atlanta. Nobody’s partying. Relax hahaha. #Maskon #nandout,” Williams wrote.
Clippers coach Doc Rivers told the NBA website, “You know, obviously, the (photos) that came out here, and that’s something we obviously didn’t like to see or like.”
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Speaking to CNN, intellectual functionality representative Dr. Tiff Jones admits that separating the circle of family members will inevitably be difficult, especially as players have gone from a long era of lockdown they have noticed more partners and young people than ever before, to an era. intense isolation
“I think it’s going to be complicated unless they almost compare him to the army,” he said, “You serve your country. We want the sport, so it will do psychologically for the fans.”
Dr. Jones disputes that there are no studies showing that an era of abstinence has a positive or negative effect on athletic performance, but says players will be more rested.
What will be fascinating, he says, is how they behave without the other physical connection they are so used to: the fans.
“How many of them are affected without energy? No matter what happens in your environment, you must find a way to fight.”
She says James could fight without fans,” because he said it about 8,000 times. Other guys, like Kawhi Leonard, haven’t said a word about fans, because he’s probably going to play the same way other people look at him or not. “
Every Disney guest is given a ‘magic’ wristband and it’s no different in the NBA bubble. Although on this occasion, the bands are less about accessing your fast pass to the Star Wars rides and more for managing the movement of the players and the safety of the community.
On his bubble blog, Gordon Hayward of the Boston Celtics wrote: “Magic organization is the key to your room. But you also want to be scanned before you go out, exercise and come back.”
Hayward says it’s the same procedure if you do a recreational activity, like playing golf, and every day there’s a non-public fitness quiz you want to complete.
Inevitably, life in the bubble is a compromise. The 22 groups that have recently been in the department will have to allocate a percentage of the seven practice services to each other, which are cleaned very well after each use.
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This means that they can spend long days waiting to exercise at night and that at every corner there is a potentially complicated encounter with your rivals.
Hayward writes: “You know other people from other groups, both one and two days, is almost like an era of the best school time. Once we start playing and confronting others, it can get a little strange.”
As James noted after a recent Lakers training, “Nothing is general in 2020. You make the changes and you do it along the way.
In fact, life is what you do with it: ask Hassan Whiteside, a middle of the Trail Blazers, who gladly recorded a video that shows him and some of his teammates.
Smiling from ear to ear, he said, “You to measure seven feet [high] is one in two million.” He then turned the camera to show very giant basketball players awkwardly trapped in small brightly colored pools.
“See 3 seven feet in baby bloodless bathtubs! Disney is a magical place! Magic happens! It’s bigger than good looks and the beast!
It remains to be noted if NBA athletes come to consider this delight as a criminal sentence, but there is at least one thing that will make it very different: if they can keep their nose clean, they will not only be. coming out with their belongings, they can also walk through the doors with a trophy.
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