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07-19-2022, 04:08 AM
When the coronavirus hit the United States, the N.B.A. was faced with a unique challenge. It seemed impossible to impose social distancing in basketball, an indoor sport with players almost constantly jostling one another for more than two hours. However, there was a big financial incentive to keep games going: ending the 2019 season early would have cost the league an estimated $1 billion in television revenue.
The solution? A sealed campus for players, staff and selected journalists at Disney World in Florida.
Marc Stein, who covers the N.B.A. for The New York Times, has been living out of a hotel room in the complex for the last 40 days. Today, we speak to him about what life is like inside the bubble.
Guest: Marc Stein (https://www.nytimes.com/by/marc-stein), a sports reporter for The New York Times.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily)
Background reading:
Twenty-two of the league’s 30 teams are living in the Disney World complex. Life on the campus is both strange and mundane (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/sports/basketball/coronavirus-nba-season-bubble-disney-world.html?searchResultPosition=15).
The N.B.A. has sought to replicate the home-court edge (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/sports/basketball/nba-homecourt-advantage-wnba.html?searchResultPosition=7) through music, audio cues and graphics from the “home” teams’ arenas.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)
The solution? A sealed campus for players, staff and selected journalists at Disney World in Florida.
Marc Stein, who covers the N.B.A. for The New York Times, has been living out of a hotel room in the complex for the last 40 days. Today, we speak to him about what life is like inside the bubble.
Guest: Marc Stein (https://www.nytimes.com/by/marc-stein), a sports reporter for The New York Times.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily)
Background reading:
Twenty-two of the league’s 30 teams are living in the Disney World complex. Life on the campus is both strange and mundane (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/sports/basketball/coronavirus-nba-season-bubble-disney-world.html?searchResultPosition=15).
The N.B.A. has sought to replicate the home-court edge (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/sports/basketball/nba-homecourt-advantage-wnba.html?searchResultPosition=7) through music, audio cues and graphics from the “home” teams’ arenas.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)