Brad Stevens led Butler to two Final Fours before taking the Boston Celtics job. He says college basketball, in order to have a season this year during the coronavirus pandemic, needs a bubble.
“If I were a commissioner of a league, I would be very much looking at, if our students are on line, trying to do something to replicate this,” Stevens said from the NBA’s bubble at Disney World.
Sue Bird, who won two national titles and 114 games at Connecticut, doesn’t see how a college basketball season can happen if any kind of travel is involved, because with travel — as Bird has learned firsthand through her own experience of traveling into the WNBA’s bubble in Florida — comes exposure risk. At least nine WNBA players tested positive for COVID-19 before players arrived in the bubble.
“Unless it’s a situation where they’re bringing all the teams for one place, I don’t see how travel is a part of…
