What Life is Really Like in the NBA Bubble

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As NBA players report to the league's clean site in Orlando, they are entering a whole new world of isolated life in a Disney resort. There's the daily coronavirus testing and constant monitoring of health data just to be allowed to move around. There are some strong opinions about the meals and accommodations. Plus, there are pool parties, bike rides, and fishing to fill the time between practices and workouts. How are the teams handling it? And will the bubble work to allow for actual basketball later this month? ESPN's Malika Andrews talks to us from her room in Orlando (where she's spending a LOT of time) to give a view from inside the bubble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you concerned about your health and are you confident the NBA can pull this off, safety-wise, health-wise?
0:07.8	They took all precautionary reasons, measures to make sure that we as a league, as as as safe as we can be.
0:15.4	Obviously, you know, in anything that you do, there can be things that could happen.
0:19.1	But I'm here 100% in great health,
0:22.8	and I'm looking forward to getting back on the floor.
0:29.7	That was LeBron James, weighing in after arriving at the NBA's clean site in Orlando. As players
0:36.5	across the league pour into the bubble,
0:38.8	they've been adjusting to health and safety measures,
0:41.6	as well as the food, activities,
0:43.8	and their new surroundings for the next few months,
0:46.6	or so the NBA hopes.
0:48.8	Today, ESPN's Malika Andrews joins us from inside the bubble
0:53.1	to talk about life and basketball isolation,
0:56.6	and whether it seems likely we'll get basketball at all.
1:01.0	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Monday, July 13th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:09.1	Hey, Malika.
1:11.3	Hello.
1:16.3	So at this moment, you are in Orlando.
1:20.5	You are in the NBA bubble, or pardon me, the NBA clean site.
1:27.4	You've been there for a little over a week, almost two weeks, and I want to talk to you about what life is like inside there. But first, I thought I'd
1:28.5	ask, what was the process of getting inside like? Yeah. So I arrived in Orlando on the 29th of June.
1:38.0	And initially, we were put at a separate hotel, different from the hotel I'm currently staying at for the first three
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