Thus far, the NBA’s bubble experiment has been a success with the exception of a pair of costly wing stops (pun intended). While the hope is that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is behind us by the start of next season, there’s a possibility that it won’t be, and if that’s the case, NBPA executive director Michele Roberts told Tim Bontemps of ESPN that players may have to return to the bubble for the 2020-21 season:
“If tomorrow looks like today, I don’t know how we say we can do it differently,” Roberts told ESPN in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon.