We owe the National Basketball Association an apology

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Amongst other qualifiers, a real man should be able to admit when he’s wrong. So here it is: You got me. Three months ago, as the NBA prepared to resume a season that came to a sudden halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, I called bullshit on the league’s suits for what seemed like a travesty in the making. I assumed Adam Silver was putting financial gain ahead of the welfare of the players. Yet here we are, just after the completion of an NBA season that went off without becoming a Covid-19 hotspot. I had it all twisted: The NBA bubble wasn’t “flagrantly foul”; it was a model for how to keep an insulated community infection-free during a pandemic.

The NBA bubble brought a semblance of normalcy this year, even as the seams of our society were damn-near torn apart due to an airborne virus and seemingly inescapable racism. We watched Dame Time put some respect on…