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Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season
Written by Ben Golliver
Narrated by Ben Golliver
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This captivating account of the NBA’s strangest season ever covers everything from shutdown to championship from the perspective of a reporter living inside the bubble.
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Ben Golliver
Ben Golliver is the national NBA writer for The Washington Post, the host of Sports Illustrated’s Open Floor podcast, and the co-founder of the Greatest of all Talk NBA podcast. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars program, he has been covering the NBA since 2007. Previously a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, he lives in Los Angeles.
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