Year in review: NBA bubble offered surreal setting for comeback
As the Florida humidity broke, a wildly diverse group gathered at the Casitas Pool, the name for the area just outside the lap pool that was nuzzled between three buildings and the campus' fitness center.
There was a former NBA All-Star sharing cigars and his butane lighter alongside a team scorekeeper, an arena DJ, broadcast technicians, event coordinators and NBA officials, all hanging out, sharing drinks and good stories as a late night became an early morning.
It was maybe the only place in the country where this could have happened, a group of previous strangers bonding as friends around a table
