It is locked on NBA Thursday edition lock and Goliver.

Goliver's in the bubble.

Are you like do you push on the bubble?

Does it like do you bounce around like those guys in the halftime shows?

What's the bubble? What's the feeling in the bubble-time shows what's what's the bubble what's the feeling in the bubble

Ben Goliver of the Washington Post well I think this Orlando weather it's kind of a

sweaty feeling to be honest you know it's a little bit of a frenzied feeling because we're trying to figure out where are these practices being held what time you have to show up you know the teams are trying to decide who they want to make available and they kind of tell us last minute. So it's been you know who they want to make available and they kind of tell us last minute so it's been

you know certainly an acclamation adjustment type of process here but it's a good kind of

stress because there's a payoff to it right which is that they are making it through this testing phase

with nobody positive so far.

They have now rolled the basketballs out

and held some scrimmages that felt

an awful lot like real games, you know, with star level players like Kauai Leonard and Paul George taking the court.

They made it through, you know, the first day of games unscathed and I got to say sitting there in person watching it walking around the

court taking videos and pictures beforehand there was a real you know lightness to my step you know I hopped I hopped to my step, I was feeling great.

We watch basketball today.

Like we, this is the podcast for everybody to watch basketball and I don't know if you

notice this, Ben, but in the last game they added fans

when Miami and Sacramento were playing they turned the big screen into fans cheering for the first time so we're seeing the league like implement all

these new little pieces into the broadcast and the different elements of it.

That's fascinating.

I did get a chance to see that, but I did notice that some of the elements that you're talking about

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