COVER STORY
BROADCAST REPORTER AND DIGITAL EDITOR
ndergoing COVID testing at least twice and sometimes three times a day during the 2020-21 season, with a mask compliance officer on duty, the Thunder navigated new, unwanted norms just like the rest of the country. Players sat in chilly cars waiting their turn to get nasal swabs outside of the Thunder ION, just to have the privilege to hop on mealless flights to road cities where they stayed isolated in hotel rooms.
There was a limit of a dozen people per bus on the road, meaning that team personnel were separated and distanced across four busses as opposed to the normal two.