Nick Nurse Shares Challenges of the Bubble
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The bubble in 2020 created many challenges for every NBA team involved, but no team faced the amount of interruptions that the Toronto Raptors have since 2020. Raptors head coach Nick Nurse described life in the bubble and what his team had to go through during that time.
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| 0:34.4 | In Nick's book, it was clear that there was a lot of challenges inside of the bubble. |
| 0:42.8 | How could you not have them? It seemed like the worst, honestly. |
| 0:47.1 | But no team faced the issues that Toronto had faced, having to play games in Tampa Bay for an entire year with a group of fans that were not |
| 0:56.8 | fans of them and did barely even know they were there away from home for three months |
| 1:01.5 | quarantining, wristbanding to not going close to one another, sci-fi stuff. I wanted to get his |
| 1:08.4 | perspective on not only the bubble, but what it was like in Tampa |
| 1:11.4 | Bay. And I wanted to see if there was a positive side that people don't often talk about. |
| 1:16.8 | You said that wasn't a huge fan of the bubble. I get that. Like, I opted out of that. |
| 1:23.5 | Was there anything or is there anything that you think about in terms of what you did in the bubble or experiences or relationships that you look back on like with nostalgia or with like fond memories? |
| 1:38.5 | I mean, yeah, I mean it was it was okay, right? It was okay. |
| 1:41.5 | Like the best thing was the ease of just going from your hotel |
| 1:45.7 | room to the games and practice and stuff. You know, you're, it's not like a typical road game |
| 1:51.8 | where you're getting home at 3.30 in the morning, you know, I was in bed by 11, you know? Yeah. |
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