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What Next Goes Inside the NBA Bubble

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hang Up listeners, we thought you'd enjoy this episode of Slate's daily news show What Next. The NBA has announced an ambitious plan to restart the season more than four months after it was abruptly halted due to the coronavirus. Twenty-two teams have entered the COVID-free “bubble” at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida—a state with some of the highest cases of coronavirus in the country. As long as players and staff remain in the bubble, they will undergo regular coronavirus tests and face strict campus rules. So what’s life like inside the NBA bubble? And what does this experiment say about who gets access to coronavirus testing and results? Guest: Ben Golliver covers the NBA for the Washington Post.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, we've got a little something extra for you guys in the hang-up feed this week.

0:05.0

It's an episode of Slate's great Daily News Podcast. What next?

0:10.0

I hope you're listening to it already. If you're not, this show we've got for you now, it's a great introduction.

0:16.2

The host of What Next, Mary Harris, talks to the Washington Post's Ben Galiver about life inside

0:22.2

the NBA bubble. The practicalities of it, the ethics of it, and

0:26.7

whether it's going to hold.

0:28.7

Ben is one of my favorite basketball writers, he's also the host of the podcast, The Greatest of All Talk with Andrew Sharp.

0:35.2

You should subscribe to that too.

0:37.5

Okay, enough from me.

0:39.3

Here's what next. When I called up Ben Goliver this weekend, he was alone sitting in a hotel room in Florida.

0:52.7

This room had the standard set up, two beds,

0:56.3

and a window that looked out on a little fountain.

0:59.4

There was only one catch.

1:01.8

When was the last time you left your room? So I have not left my room since I arrived Sunday one week ago.

1:11.3

As we're talking, I'm counting down the minutes I have one hour until they've promised to bring me my

1:16.3

credential and to set me free from my room it will be the first time I've kind of had outside

1:21.5

contact or been able to go at least more than one step outside of my

1:25.5

hotel room door in a solid week. Ben's a basketball reporter writes for the Washington Post,

1:32.3

hosts a bunch of basketball podcasts.

1:35.5

This hotel room he's been stuck in.

1:37.3

It's in the middle of Walt Disney World, which is where 22 NBA teams are set to resume

1:42.1

their 2020 season next week. But before they do that, everyone

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