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Dear NBA, please adopt these bubble features permanently

When the grand plan to finish the NBA season inside a bubble at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida was first announced, there was plenty to be apprehensive about. Beyond the health protocols in place to keep players and team personnel safe as they attempted to restart their season in the middle of a global pandemic, there were ethical concerns about the league taking up resources from the general public with their daily testing procedures.

Those concerns remain. As with all things sports in the year 2020, it is very much a day-to-day proposition (see: Major League Baseball).