This season restart was always about something bigger than basketball.

It was about resilience and ingenuity,

but it was also about racial equality and social justice.

Working together, teams and players,

we found a way to play through a pandemic, keep everyone safe,

and put a spotlight on these critically important issues.

That's NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, as he congratulated the Lakers on their NBA title

and the entire league on surviving this season.

And as the confetti came down, the carefully engineered bubble of the past 100 plus days,

it basically burst. Today, ESPN's Malika Andrews tells us what it's taken to make this

grand experiment work and what it means to leave it all behind.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, October 14th. This is ESPN Daily.

So Malika, yeah. Today is the day.

Where are we reaching you right now?

For the listener, if you could describe what's around you, what you're looking at for potentially, I suppose, the last time.

I'm in my hotel room at the Grand Estino Coronado Springs Hotel, and this has been my

my room, my home, my apartment for the last 107 days.

Malika Andrews has been inside the NBA bubble as long as any other member of the media.

It feels like moving. I'm down to the bits and bobs that are no longer fun, like the half-eaten bag of Doritos that I want to decide what I want to do with and the highlighters that I have to decide, really, do these need to stay

or go? But I only have about two hours until I am getting picked up. And then you will be back

among us out here. So Malika, as the most successful COVID-related experiment in America comes

to an end, what's the current status of the bubble now?

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