Maybe the 'new normal' thing is thinking that the NBA's plans to end the season at Disney World make sense. The proposal came about as a crazy idea from Keith Smith, a journalist who worked in the park for almost 20 years but, according to 'The Athletic', the NBA is seriously studying it.

To resume the season, the NBA wants to create a bubble where it can use extreme security measures and the Disney World complex offers the ideal conditions: thousands of hotel beds, catering services and a sports complex. Not forgetting that ESPN and ABC, two of the chains that broadcast the league, are the property of Disney.

Although the NBA has not yet announced its plans to resume the season, the option with the most numbers is to gather all the teams in one venue. It is the option that the ACB manages and very similar to the one taken by the Chinese league ... Before delaying the return until July. This eliminates the risk of travel and makes it easier to control confinement.

More than 1000 people

The Disney World complex has the hotel capacity to house all the personnel that move the NBA: players, coaches, franchise and league workers, camera operators ... Depending on the number of teams that return, they can be more than 1,000 people .

There is also the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, a huge sports complex that can be transformed to host up to 12 basketball courts and gymnasium , where large events have already been held and, very importantly, prepared to make television broadcasts. In addition, within a 40 kilometer radius is the Orlando Magic Pavilion and its training ground.

And of course, Disney's relationship with the NBA: The corporation owns ESPN, one of the networks that pay $ 2.7 billion each season to broadcast the competition.

The Las Vegas Option

Another option that the NBA manages is Las Vegas, where every year it celebrates the Summer League that Warren LeGarie founded (if that name sounds familiar, it may be because he was the agent who brought Petrovic and Fernando Martín to the NBA, the one of Audie Norris in Spain, or the one that brought George Karl to Real Madrid).

The NBA is expected to give more clues in the coming days about its plans to resume the season. This week he delayed the return to training until May 8 - and only in the States that allow the sports facilities to be reopened - but he has not yet decided whether to end the regular season or go directly to the playoffs and with how many teams.

According to the specialized press, canceling the rest of the regular phase would mean (between 15 and 20 games per team) would mean losses of around 500 million dollars and canceling the rest of the season would mean more than 1,000 million . Seen this way, Disney World can be a good option.

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