As expected, there is a bit of a video game in the sounds and special effects developed by the NBA for its resumption in the Orlando 'bubble' after five months of closure due to coronavirus. But there is also genuine basketball, with struggle and brilliance and its first controversies, in a show that, if it can continue until October without a regrowth that would end it all, will not only have saved the NBA season but basketball itself, its credibility , his enthusiasm, his hobby in a terrible moment in history in which people look for reference points, reasons to keep faith in a way of life that at times seems to sink underfoot.

There is no particular drop in form in the protagonists, and there have already been significant games such as the victory of the active champions, Toronto Raptors, over some Lakers who have flown over the West after their spectacular reinforcement to the blow of millions with two superstars, LeBron James and Anthony Davis . As the Raptors themselves had lost their overpowering forward Kawhi Leonard , few gave them a chance to repeat. It will be necessary to reconsider, perhaps.

Toronto is, of course, clearly below the Eastern dominating team, the Milwaukee Bucks and their portent Giannis Antetokounmpo , and on the first day they already gave us a controversy, which is the sauce of the sport: against the Celtics, the game was over and the offense was called in attack on the Greek ... to immediately turn it into a defensive fault of Marcus Smart , who put the cry in the sky (and has cost him a $ 25,000 fine) for reporting improper arbitration help to the idolized MVP, giving way victory to Milwaukee.

But, as we have already seen, much more important is being in this peculiar league of 22 the unit against racial conflict in the United States, which is not surprising because the NBA, the league with the highest percentage of black players of all, always It has been at the forefront of a fight that, in the wake of the pandemic, has further thinned the entire environment in the United States. It is a good example for a disoriented society - like ours, like all others - and we must hope that this experiment - more than a hundred games over two and a half months - is the most ambitious of the returns of the soccer and basketball leagues. in Europe or America, it can reach its grand finale and give us a bit of sports morale in the face of an uncertain future.

May God distribute health, which could be the new cry that happens to that of "distribute luck" ...

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