The 2020 NBA Bubble was the isolation zone at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association. The bubble was a USD 190 million investment by the NBA to protect its 2019–20 season, which was initially suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020. Twenty-two of the thirty NBA teams were invited to participate, with games being held behind closed doors at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and the teams staying at Disney World hotels.
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The 2020 NBA Bubble, also referred to as the Disney Bubble or Orlando Bubble, was the isolation zone at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association. The bubble was a USD 190 million investment by the NBA to protect its 2019–20 season, which was initially suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020. Twenty-two of the thirty NBA teams were invited to participate, with games being held behind closed doors at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and the teams staying at Disney World hotels. After playing three exhibition scrimmages inside the bubble in late July, the invited teams played eight additional regular season games to determine playoff seeding. The playoffs began on August 17, and the NBA Finals began on September 30. The season ended on October 11 when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games. From the start of the resumed 2019 20 season until the end of the NBA finals, the NBA ended with no recorded cases of COVID 19 for the teams participating in the bubble. A second bubble to be hosted in Chicago was briefly considered by theNBA for the eight teams not invited to the bubble so they would also have some sort of competitive play instead of merely sitting out the entire time.
However, this plan fell through and the bubble recouped an estimated USD 1. 5 billion in revenue. The NBA produced a rule book of more than 100 pages to try to salvage its efforts to salvage the season. Rules include testing requirements, and any players subject to isolation periods had to complete their isolation periods, though the staff were not required to quarantine all times. The teams worked together to use the bubble as a platform for the Black Lives Matter movement. Players always had to wear masks, with eating and exercise being exceptions. Nobody declined to join the bubble, and at least ten teams declined to allow their players to join their teams, which referred to players as the “snitch hotline” The NBA had a hotline to report players who broke the rules of the bubble and referred to them as the \” snitch hotline\”, which players referred to as the “Snitch hotline”, which players referred to as the “snitch hotline”, and the “Snitch” Hotline was set up to report people who broke rules such as eating and exercising and eating and being exercising and the players were not required to participate.
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