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‘It’s like “Groundhog Day”’: One reporter’s account of life inside the ‘NBA bubble’

After a week in quarantine, USA Today's Mark Medina is consuming basketball all day long in Orlando

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An NBA sign is posted on a basketball arena at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. NBA games will resume Thursday.

Before the pandemic, Mark Medina, a national basketball reporter for USA Today, had the luxury of being at least mildly selective about which games he wanted to travel to and write about. 

But now that he is ensconced inside...

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