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Mind of Micah

Read: The Most Magical Place on Earth: Inside the great NBA bubble experiment.

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Micah returns to share the definitive inside-the-bubble look at the end of the 2020 NBA season. Part 2 coming tomorrow. Subscribe to Micah's Read of the Week: https://micahwiener.substack.com/ Read it: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-nba-bubble

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Mind of Micah.

0:07.0

Today on the show is the

0:13.3

return of Micah's Read of the Week as promised in Micah's Read of the Week the

0:17.2

the newsletter available for free in your inbox every Monday

0:21.8

around lunchtime.

0:24.0

How's everybody doing? Happy Thursday to you.

0:27.0

Today is the read of the week that I promised in the newsletter.

0:32.0

It's called The Most Magical Place on Earth

0:34.0

Inside the Great NBA Bubble Experiment.

0:37.5

It's written by Turner Sports's Taylor Rooks, a sideline reporter, an interviewer, writing her first major magazine piece.

0:48.8

It is long, it is five parts, and we're going to share it with you now. Before we do, of course, check out

0:58.3

backdoor cover if you're into basketball and too much dip, my other sports podcast where we make jokes and I think you'll

1:06.1

enjoy both of them and of course subscribe to the podcast or subscribe to this

1:11.7

podcast and of course the newsletter for free in your inbox

1:17.4

in the link in the description of this podcast.

1:20.4

All right, This is from November 24th, so it's about a month old, but we'll get to it.

1:28.0

I thought it was topical considering the NBA kicks off a week from yesterday as I'm recording this on Thursday.

1:37.0

Prologue before the bubble.

1:43.2

Rudy Gober felt panicked and scared.

1:46.6

So he did what you do when you feel panicked and scared.

1:49.2

He tried to call his mother, Corrine, but he was having trouble reaching her.

1:54.0

She was sleeping because it was like 4 a.m. in France at the time, says Gopir.

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