The NBA Bubble Was a Success Because It Failed

The near-failure and success of the LeBron James-era Miami Heat

The 2019-20 NBA season resumed on July 30 at Walt Disney World. • Key dates in the restart • Team-by-team preview • Life inside the bubble • Top ...

Can Celtics succeed where all recent NBA champions have failed?

After their bubble championship followed by the shortest offseason in league history, the Lakers started hot but then were pummeled by injuries.

NBA “bubble” has been a success, but how are the league's finances?

Pro basketball wraps up its interrupted regular season on Friday, and unlike college football or Major League Baseball, the NBA coronavirus ...

Superteams in the NBA - Wikipedia

A superteam in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is an arbitrary term to describe a team that uses player acquisitions in a short period of time to ...

Roundball Roundtable: Warriors, Cavs raise eyebrows | theScore.com

Availability is the most important factor for success in the playoffs, and Philadelphia is on track to miss out entirely if its stars can't ...

NBA's Most Improved Bubble Players According to Analytics

The NBA Bubble has provided an opportunity for its inhabitants to reestablish their identity within the league, and a handful of teams have taken full ...

NBA returns with message from a bubble - Houston Chronicle

Arenas will remain shuttered, replaced by an NBA bubble on a Disney campus. Eight teams will be absent, relegated to waiting for the postponed ...

NBA rumors: Disney, ESPN working on 2020 'The Bubble ...

But beyond all the rigorous preparations that went into making sure that the 2020 NBA bubble was a success, there were also plenty of storylines ...

More than nostalgia: How NBC thrived and ESPN failed with the NBA

To be sure, there was no shortage of 'right place, right time' involved in the success of the NBA on NBC, and once that luck ran out, the network was quick to ...

The NBA Is In Trouble — Can Adam Silver Revive the League?

It is no secret that the NBA's ratings have taken a turn for the worst. While the past couple of years have seen the NBA Finals' ratings ...

The Economics of the NBA Bubble

“The loss of ticket sales alone, due to no fans being allowed at the games, is estimated to cost each team nearly $2 million on average per game ...

109 points in 24 hours: De'Aaron Fox makes Kings history

... that was capped off with a then-career-high 39-point performance in the NBA Bubble. Fox's 39-point outing acted as a sign of what was to come ...

Unique NBA bubble a success since season restart - Rappler

The NBA has proven sports can thrive during the coronavirus pandemic through its unique bubble at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. For the ...

Without a bubble, the NBA prepares to plunge into the unknown

As a work of sheer ambition, the bubble remains an unmatched feat. No sports league has housed more people – several thousand at its peak – ...

NBA Finals: LeBron's Lakers were the perfect team to win the bubble ...

As one might expect, field goal and free throw percentages were a little higher than before the restart. More telling, though: Teams fouled more ...

Inside the Zoom call where Kyrie Irving tried to burst the NBA's bubble

A mass boycott of the bubble had a minor groundswell. An informal coalition of the potentially unwilling, dozens strong and growing, was born.

What life is like for players inside the NBA bubble - Boston.com

The so-called bubble in Central Florida is where 22 teams have settled for about a week now, where they all will remain for another month and ...

Joel Embiid sluggish, leaves room for improvement in 13-point ...

... and failed to find his shot in his return to the Philadelphia 76ers. Embiid hit the court to a rousing ovation from nearly 20,000 fans but ...

Reporters Inside the NBA's COVID-Free Bubble Are Hoping It Doesn ...

The NBA has dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million to $170 million on the bubble. And though none of the 346 players tested since ...

Players kicked off team and in quarantine after breaking their ...

Safety bubbles in the NBA and sports league burst at the hands of a few, highlighting the implications to us outside the bubble. Leidy Jaimes, ...