'Prison' standards for NBA players in Orlando's bubble

The 22 teams that will participate in the resumption of the NBA season are already in the Walt Disney World Resort complex in Orlando, where they will live confined over the next three months (until October 13 the finalists), in which it has comeTo call 'bubble', a gold cage with important restrictions to avoid infections for the coronavirus.

Cualquier medida espoca teniendo en cuenta que Florida se ha convertido en pocos días en el epicentro mundial de la pandemia, con 10.000 nuevos casos el miércoles. Fueron los últimos en confinarse y los primeros en intentar volver a la normalidad y las consecuencias han sido demoledoras. Hay más de 220.000 positivos activos y el porcentaje de población infectada se ha mantenido por encima del 14%.

Players will lose during that time what they appreciate the most: freedom.In fact, the NBA has distributed among the 22 team a 113 -page manual with a protocol plagued by regulations, many of them unpopular among the players, who as the weeks go by testing their patience when they see their freedoms to the extreme on the extremeless three months.

Some of the precepts rather remember prison measures, such as tracking bracelets, proximity alarms or smart rings.And the almost total restriction of movements, the very biased leisure activities and even the thorough control of the food seem more typical of prisoners than of millionaire athletes.Will they endure without escaping the gold cage?These are some of the rules they must comply with:

Monitoring bracelets to each player

When they register at the hotel, each player will receive a 'magicband', a rubber bracelet with a chip that serves as a key of the room and purse if necessary throughout the hotel.The NBA will also use it to register players for Coronavirus tests.Some will remind the follow -up bracelets that are put to some prisoners on probation.

After arriving at the hotel (everyone did between Tuesday and Thursday) the players will be subjected to the Covid 19.After the same they put in quarantine in their individual rooms for 24 to 48 hours until two tests pass 24 hours apart.At that time there has been no contact with the rest of the team members, they have eaten the room service and have had team meetings by Zoom.

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Proximity alarm to maintain distances

The entire NBA team and staff, including coaches, must use a proximity alarm that will notify the user if it passes more than five minutes less than two meters from another person who also has the band.The idea is to remind people of social distance.Players will have the option to use the alarm band, but it is not mandatory.

Small symptom detection ring

Los jugadores también tendrán la opción de usar el anillo inteligente Oura, que rastrea la temperatura, la respiración y la frecuencia cardíaca del usuario. Los fabricantes dicen que podría ayudar a indicar si un jugador tiene algunos de los primeros síntomas de COVID-19 antes de darse cuenta, pero los jugadores son escépticos de la tecnología portátil de la liga en general. Habrá que ver cuántos jugadores usan esa opción.

Mandatory mask for all

All players, Disney team and employees must always use the mask except when they eat, train, are in their rooms, or if they are swimming or doing more than two meters from another person.They could lie by the pool if nobody approaches.

ROOM SERVICE...And private chefs

The food will be prepared by Disney chefs, although the first two days, for confinement and with the restaurants closed yet, it was like that of an airplane.Each team will have the opportunity to work with a kitchen team to design the healthy menu that they consider to fit more to the dietary needs of their players.In addition, several players have private chefs that will prepare their meals outside the 'bubble' and then send it to the hotels.Even McCollum (Blazers) took his own wine to the hotel.

Entertainment areas for players

Team hotels will have comforts for players and staff, such as swimming pools, bicycles (there are circulating paths), room area only for players (with televisions and game areas).In addition, the hotel will have hairdresser, manicure and spa services.There will also be films projections, some DJ sets, bowling alleys and other games such as Ping Pong, which cannot be played in the doubles mode.There will also be golf, but not carts, to avoid infections when driving them.

You can only get out of an emergency

Players can leave the bubble whenever they want.If it is a justified exit for a family emergency (Gordon Hayward and other players have couples with babies that must be born during confinement) and players are subjected daily while they are out of the bubble, they only face a four -day quarantineUpon returning.

However, if a player chooses to leave the bubble without a justified reason and approved by the NBA, he will face his return to a 14 -day quarantine and will have to give two negative tests to train again and play.In addition, the player will not be paid for any game that has been lost.And any member of the team that violates the rules of the NBA bubble or abandons it without prior approval will be expelled and will not be able to return to the Disney campus.

The parties will not be suspended by positive cases

The NBA has made it very clear: the parties will not stop for cases of positives.If a player tested within the bubble, he will immediately transfer it to an isolation home outside Disney, where he will spend at least 14 days, and then he must pass two coronavirus tests with one day apart.

Any person with whom the infected player has been in contact will face more evidence and will be monitored.The teams and the league will supervise and evaluate more closely to anyone who has been very close to that infected player and submit more tests.

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