Sorry, Pinocchio.
If the NBA bubble were a movie, it wouldn’t be a Disney cartoon. It would be “Groundhog Day.” And Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, a bigger joker than Bill Murray, would be cast in the lead role.
Don’t get me wrong. The NBA bubble is not a bad place, but it’s definitely a weird place.
Every morning, now 68 or 69 days in a row, Jokic awakes in a luxury hotel and throws back the covers of his 800-thread count sheets. Then Joker retraces exactly the same steps from bathroom to breakfast to ‘Rona test to bus to arena to bus to video game to sleep, all accompanied by the never-ending beat of Sonny and Cher singing: “I Got You Babe.