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Jamal Murray On The 2020 NBA Bubble: “Highest Level Of Basketball… Guys Were So Locked In”

During the 2019-20 season, the NBA put up a bubble setting at the Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida in hopes of finishing a nearly lost season due to the threats and effects brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The teams that played in the NBA bubble saw isolation, no travel days, empty courts, and lack of home court advantage. It was so strange that many fans and pundits feel like the championship won inside the bubble doesn’t count and deserves an asterisk.

Indeed, the NBA bubble has brought multiple viewpoints from the NBA world. Now, the latest player to weigh in on the discussion was Denver Nuggets point Jamal Murray. In an interview with Taylor Rooks, the 25-year old described the level of basketball being played during the NBA bubble campaign.

 “I think that was the highest level of basketball being played, because it was only basketball,” Murray told Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks. “Guys were so locked in. You go to the gym. You have shoot-around. You eat. You play. Win or lose, you’re in your room or you go back to the gym.”

“That was the highest basketball being played, because it was only basketball.”

Jamal Murray describes how players were LOCKED IN during the NBA Bubble pic.twitter.com/VfxJ2Fr7XZ

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 5, 2022