Listen: An Extremely Bizarre Plan to Play Basketball
Rising case numbers, an empty theme park, and 22 teams in quarantine. What could go wrong?
On March 11, the NBA abruptly shut down its season after one of its players tested positive for COVID-19. Now, even though the pandemic isn’t behind us, the league has announced a plan to restart the season.
Joel Anderson, a Slate staff writer and a co-host of the podcast Hang Up and Listen, joins James Hamblin and Katherine Wells to explain what’s going on with the NBA.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
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