Little by little, we have started to see the picture form of what the NBA is envisioning about its potential return to play at some point this summer, with Walt Disney World in Orlando being one of the reported locations where games will be played. And while there had been certain talks about what a “bubble” would look like, Los Angeles Lakers star Jared Dudley made waves by suggesting players can leave the bubble if they choose to, but that teams competing for a championship, like the Lakers, would be highly incentivized stay within it.
“Bron, AD and all the top guys we have, we’ll be wrapping them in a bubble and not letting them go anywhere,” Dudley said. “You’ll have that be a team rule. Now, it won’t be a league, an NBA rule, but you’d want to say, ‘Listen, guys, we’ve come too far. We’re going to put our family on hold.'”
It appears that both the players and the league are ready to assume some level of risk in order to finish the season. However, they are trying to do it safely and anybody who does catch it will be quarantined. How that will actually work out, in reality, is for the league to decide with medical experts. But doing it safely is a sacrifice that the NBA needs to take, not only for the players, but for the essential workers on-site, but they aren’t going to police their players to do it.
