NBA's bubble ball restart: No family, fans or familiar feel
by Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2020
4 minutes
In the 141 days between the NBA's last regular-season game and its next, the league spent countless hours planning, consulting with doctors, players and executives, in devising a strategy to resume the season.
They would descend on Orlando, Fla., buying one-way tickets for unknown stays on the Disney World campus. They would isolate. Once they cleared quarantine, they would wear masks and stand six feet apart. Decks of cards would be used once. Basketballs would be scrubbed to a finite protocol.
When players such as Toronto's Norman Powell would run onto the court to play, they'd be
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