What Next Goes Inside the NBA Bubble
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Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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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