Inside the WNBA Bubble + Season Preview

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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After a months-long delay, the 2020 WNBA season finally tips off this Saturday when the New York Liberty and no. 1 overall pick Sabrina Ionescu take on the Seattle Storm and veteran star Sue Bird. Aside from the action on the court, the season promises to be unlike any other in the league's history. Every game will be played from the league's "clean site" at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. In addition, some of the league's most notable names have chosen not to play, either for health reasons, or to focus their attention on issues of social justice and racism. ESPN's LaChina Robinson joins the show to explain how the WNBA's bubble compares to their NBA counterparts in Orlando...and also breaks down what to expect on the court, in a season where everyone is figuring it out on the fly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Williams, her three, no good, rebound Washington.
0:07.0	Connecticut will back off.
0:09.0	The wait is over for the very first time
0:14.0	the Washington Mystics are WMBA champions.
0:21.6	That was the last time we had a WNBA game, when Washington took home the title this past October, approximately 87 years ago.
0:31.6	This Saturday, the league tips off a new season in a vastly different world.
0:35.6	One that the WNBA, like all of us, is figuring out on the
0:39.8	fly. Today we examine how the league is planning on keeping its players and personnel safe
0:45.3	in the middle of the pandemic, and then we preview the action on the court, and whether a sports-starved
0:51.2	audience can help the league finally get the attention it's long sought.
0:56.0	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, July 22nd. This is ESPN Daily.
1:04.0	Hey, LeChina. Hey, Pablo. How are you?
1:07.3	LeChina Robinson is a WNBA analyst for ESPN and the host of the Around the Rim podcast.
1:13.6	I'm bringing you on the show today because it is your time.
1:17.0	It is the WMBA season tipping off this Saturday.
1:20.0	And I know that teams are playing a shortened regular season with 22 games as opposed to the standard 36.
1:27.0	But for two weeks now, all 12 teams have
1:29.5	been living at the WNBA Clean Site in Bradenton, just outside Exotic Tampa, Florida.
1:36.7	What has life been like for the players so far down in their bubble?
1:41.3	Well, Pablo, life seems to be okay in the bubble for WMBA players so far. Now, there was a ton of
1:46.9	bad press early around WMBA accommodations. Video surfaced of unsanitary conditions where some players
1:56.0	were living. There were reports of rodent traps, bedbugs, and showers that didn't drain.
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