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Goody, Goody, word-winning, Goody Award-winning, Paul Famer, Doris, Burke, my colleague and friend

here at ESPN. Doris, how are you? Excellent, Woj, getting closer and closer to tip off.

And, you know, maybe the most extraordinary season in the history of the league.

We thought the bubble was, you know, the most fascinating professional environment of our careers.

But the fact of the matter is, this may turn out to be even more challenging, even more disruptive.

And I'm anxious to see how we do this.

You know, we go into the season as broadcasters, Woge, not knowing whether or not we will be in arena or someone just arrived from ESPN two days ago to put in a home setup here at my home.

So I'm really curious, really curious what impact it has on the season, on the players,

on winning and losing.

Yeah, it's funny.

Everybody last year, Doris, heading into the bubble, talked about, is there an asterisk

on last season?

Would there be one? And I think part of that

was there was such a long gap between March 11th and the restart. And it almost felt like a new

season in some ways. And then it was going to be this environment that nobody quite knew

what to make of before they went there. But to me, this is, and I'm not a big

asterisk guy. You play under the circumstances. Everybody has the same conditions,

and you go out and play. But this is the season where I think there are so many more variables.

And we took for granted, Doris, as we got going in in the bubble that there wasn't going to be an

outbreak in the playoffs. Once we got in the bubble and we realized that it just was not going to happen.

The testing and the quarantines on the way in and how they had largely sealed it off, I think there was confidence that I don't think people were waking up in the bubble thinking,

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