Name: Rachel Nichols previews the NBA's return to play in Orlando | Now or Never
Uploaded: 2020-07-02T08:57:29.000Z
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it's now or never Camino and Rich and here to Talk MBA.

Since the MBA made the announcement that they're coming back at the end of July, things have shifted.

Well, we're hearing more from players, and this is a little bit what we expected.

There's 450 players, and if you remember, when we were in the owner side of things when they were trying to come up with, how should we return?

There was kind of endless discussion about different teams.

Interest teams at the bottom of the standings had one kind of interest.

Bigger markets had another kind of interest.

Teams with big stars had another kind of interest.

We've got 450 n b A players, and frankly, there are guys with varying levels of interest.

There are guys with health and safety concerns.

There are guys who are concerned about the social protest movement in this country and how that will be affected if they return to basketball.

And even within that group, you have a very different set of opinions about what that effect would be and how that platform could best be used.

You also have guys who feel like we're going to go to the bubble, but we're one of the lower ranked teams in the bubble.

I'm basically going to go through this 67 week isolation and I'm doing it so I can maybe make it into the playoffs and the Milwaukee Bucks or the L A Lakers of the L A Clippers game.

I don't know if I need that, so you're just a little bit of that bubbling forward.

And I do think if I had to put money down in Vegas that we will get to Orlando.

That is taking a little bit of discussion to get there, and I think that's okay.

I think people deserve to be heard out well, reality is kicking in, and it's difficult to get everyone on the same page.

So behind the scenes do you think LeBron is getting on the phone with Dwight Howard like the Lakers, for example, what do you think is going on.

You know Avery Bradley there definitely players who have voiced concern on some of the top contending teams he's on.

Lou Williams on the Clippers tweeting out that he was worried about basketball games, taking away from the attention to the protests.

So I think there's a lot of different points of view, and I don't know what phone calls LeBron James has been making.

But I have talked to a decent number of players who want to go, and they have expressed that they're being careful not to pressure their teammates because those health and safety concerns those air valid, those social justice concerns those air valid.

They don't wanna have the history written that they were the guy who tried to trample over their teammates rates.

I have heard players say we kind of have faith that whatever decision we come to is a group as a team, we will all be unified from that point forward, we'll have to see if that happens.

I'm assuming they're all having some serious conversations right now.

This is what you do just on a travel level, right?

I mean, I think I'm like everyone else, right.

I see you and your beautiful home there, right?

You've learned about the inside of people's lives and houses a lot more than you ever intended.

You know, I think all of us, though, are sitting here doing a job on television.

So many people have had tragic losses, sicknesses, deaths of loved ones.

But I understand sort of the greater picture here for sure.

Returning the bubble is a bigger issue than the actual torment.

I think right now it is right We went through three weeks for the actual tournament was the biggest issue.

Now we're going through a few weeks for the campus and what it's gonna be like and who's gonna be able to do what is the biggest issue.

And then when we get to three weeks from now, probably, who's gonna play, who in the schedule will be the biggest issue in the seeding and isn't getting a fair chance?

I think everyone is focused on what's right in front of them, but I get it.

All of this is something we've never done before.

I believe that or not, the 2019 2020 playoffs is just a glorified summer league.

I think it's gonna be a lot more like Annette elevated athletic survivor.

These guys obviously will not have to live in the jungle, but I do think it's going to be tough conditions.

I don't think it's gonna be what they're used to.

I think the mental toll and certain toughness you're gonna need to withstand this and then for the teams that advance later as they make it through and like more humans just drop away from around them right cause Teams go home after they lose, and they're wandering around this ghost campus trying to focus on a playoff with no fans in the stands, I think it's going to be hard, so I don't think it's glorified summer league.

There's a lot of gambling, alcohol and other things and summer league.

You're not getting in that Orlando bubble with black lives matter, Corona virus.

Everything going on in the world right now, more opportunity than risk to move forward with the embassies in What do you think it's so hard to say?

I mean, the risk becomes a lot more real of somebody who's on that Orlando campus gets sick and, God forbid, dies.

Right then, everyone's going to say that was the biggest thing I think right now, if you look at the odds, the odds are that this is an opportunity, an opportunity to do something different, an opportunity to have a national platform for a cause, that a lot of players are very committed to an opportunity to maybe reshaped the N B a little bit the league calendar or whether we have playing games for the eighth spot in the playoffs.

But of course, that's all balanced against.

Okay, as long as nobody gets seriously ill and we're just gonna have to wait and see if that's, in fact how it plays out.

They're taking a lot of safety precautions.

We'll see if it works, and none of the top three sport leagues really wants to go first.

I think they would love to all go first, because if you get to go first before anyone else is competing for television ratings, I think that is a win.

Even if the games, all the players are a little rusty or it does feel a little bit like a high school gym environment.

But being first is also scary, and we're also seeing it's complicated.

Some big talk about how baseball was gonna go first on Fourth of July weekend.

They blew a perfect opportunity to whenever a lot of younger fans, and that's not happening now, Rachel, do you think there is?

Ah, I mean, obviously this major issues that they're serious, that a real things black lives matter.

But is it easier for a player to say I don't want to go back when they are on one of those teams that don't really stand the chance?

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