Training camps are dull, but basketball’s biosphere has created plenty of fun stories
A team bus carrying the NBA champions Toronto Raptors basketball team, with Black Lives Matter displayed on the sides, arrives at the Walt Disney World complex outside Orlando, Fla., on July 9, 2020.Generally speaking, there is an orderly way storylines develop during a sports training camp:Story continues below advertisementFifth, the new guy is hurt already.Then the season gets under way.
Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley is taking fishing lessons with L.A. Clippers’ forward Montrezl Harrell. In a hotel hallway. Beverley posted a video of said introduction to rod technology. And did you hear the one where Phoenix’s Kelly Oubre sent out a heads-up letting his colleagues know that you could order takeout into the bubble? Because you most definitely can’t do that. Takeout turns a nice, smooth bubble into an epidemiological wiffle ball.
At this rate, it’s possible the NBA bubble will turn out to be more fun to watch than the NBA season. That willingness to embrace celebrity was always important to the NBA’s success, but has never been moreso.Most of us continue to operate under the assumption that this new way of living is a blip. It may be a six-month blip or a year-long blip, but a blip nonetheless.The sports business is the least of our worries, but the game has a function. Its greatest social utility is reminding pandemic agnostics that things are not getting back to normal.
“Next season will be played with fans,” Ujiri said. “We’ll get through this by the grace of God. I’m one of the optimistic ones.”I’m not. There is nothing to suggest this will be over by Dec. 1 . Or June 1. Or the next Dec. 1.
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