Is NBA Ready To “Live With The Virus?” w/ Zach Binney
The Crossover NBA Show
SI NBA
4.6 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On the Friday edition, Howard Beck welcomes Zach Binney, sports epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta, to discuss the NBA’s sudden philosophical shift on the pandemic – specifically, Commissioner Adam Silver’s statement that the virus “will not be eradicated, and we’re gonna have to learn to live with it.” In the meantime, is the NBA doing enough to protect its fans? Should arenas have mask and vaccine mandates? And when and how might the Covid era end?
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| 0:53.6 | It's been a profoundly strange and challenging week for the NBA, even more so than last week. |
| 1:00.1 | More than 80 players, as I record this, are in protocols. |
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