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How Boxing's Covid-19 Problems Foreshadow Trouble for the NBA

The NBA is in trouble.

To be clear: I don’t want the NBA to be in trouble. I want the league to restart its season. I want to see 22 teams fight it out for 16 playoff spots and for those 16 teams to stage a memorable postseason. I want the NBA to spend three-plus months in an airtight bubble that protects players, coaches and staffers from COVID-19—and the fallout that comes from someone infected by it.

I just don’t know how they do it.

Boxing, you see, is making me very nervous.