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The enormous risks and stakes driving the NBA safety discussions of column by Zach Lowe, ESPN, hosted last night.

The enormous risks in stakes driving the NBA safety discussions as they're trying to get the bubble environment underway a month,

a little more than a month from now, down in Orlando.

And I mentioned that there's some executives that are worried about, you know,

how these games are going to be played and the effort level.

This also stuck out to me, Chris, in this column, he writes that there are those worried that teams down

2-0 in the first round with no home games looming will not bring what we are accustomed to seeing

as backs against the wall effort.

Zach writes editorially, I have more faith in players feeling the usual competitive juices, but that line of thought is out there. Do you agree with that? Because I do. I can understand that. And this is the thing for any of these sports that return with no fans. At some point, I'm not going to blame any of these guys. I look around and be like, well, this is kind of fake. I'm going to half-ass this, especially if you're down 2-0 in a series,

three-game series. Yeah, like I'll just show up. I'll get my paycheck, but otherwise I'm good. You know, I can completely understand that. It doesn't make it right. It doesn't make, but I get it. I completely get it from a human standpoint, just like how guys will feel about this thing.

Yeah, well, especially if you know, you're on a team, you feel like you don't really have a chance to win a championship or anything, and you don't like being in the bubble, and you have health and safety concerns. Yeah. I mean, I could, I could completely see that taking place. But that's part of the risk on the NBA side, on the business side of trying to restart this.

I mean, let's be real about the players, the coaches, all the team personnel, they're, they're the ones taking most of the risk. But from the standpoint of Adam Silver and the owners and, you know, those folks with the NBA, the risk that they take, much lesser risk is that, yeah, that the products, you know, those folks with the NBA, the risk that they take much lesser risk is that,

yeah, that the product's, you know, not as good and that the product, the integrity of the

product is somehow dampened or hampered in some way by this setup.

And talking about how this thing could spread, just this game alone, it's like, I can understand

why a player would be like, you know what, this is, I don't want to catch this. Who knows what's going to end up doing to me? I'm good. He writes here, basketball, not tennis or golf, sports of natural physical distance. It takes place indoors where air recirculates, even with no fans and limited media. Sweaty players will bump together for hours at a time.

Steve Mooney, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington, said,

the players are going to be breathing hard on each other, which seems likely to be able to transmit the virus based on what we know.

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