The NBA season won’t come with a bubble this time around, but the league’s anonymous tip hotline is still making a return.
On Saturday, the league’s new COVID-19 protocols started to leak out. One of the protocols among the leagues was a new tip hotline like the one that they opened up in the summer for the bubble.
Amongst fans, it’s best known as the snitch line. The line was available for anyone on the NBA bubble’s campus to call league officials if they’d ever seen anyone stepping out of line with the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols.
And as much as we joke about it, the league is absolutely right to create this. The protocols were made to keep people safe and violating them could jeopardize everyone’s health. So, yes, the hotline is a great idea.
That’s why they’re bringing it back for this season even without a bubble, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
The NBA will establish an anonymous hotline to report potential violations of safety protocols during in-market play in 2020-21 season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. There was also a hotline for the Orlando restart.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 28, 2020
As great an idea as it is, though, NBA fans still had their jokes. And they were pretty funny. Most of them were about Chris Paul.
