Premise for a science-fiction movie: Send hundreds of young athletes into the teeth of a pandemic, where they will live inside bubbles, compete in a sport that requires them to sweat and breathe on one another in pursuit of prizes.
What could go wrong with a real-life version of the Hunger Games?
Turns out, nothing.
The strangest basketball season ever is over, and the combatants have returned to a version of normal life that may seem less normal than their recent, cloistered existence.
The 2020 season will be remembered as that time basketball survived the coronavirus, which is accurate but inadequate.