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Inside the NBA bubble: The new arena experience is a strange one

ORLANDO, Fla. — After going through a security checkpoint in a rental car and pulling into the parking lot at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World, I was gifted with the best parking spot I’ve ever had at a sporting event.

Of course, there weren’t going to be many other cars because there wouldn’t be any fans, and most of the media took a shuttle over to the complex from the a hotel just a couple miles away.

Walking from the parking lot and into the complex, which features the Arena, the Visa Athletic Center and the HP Field House, where the Jazz played their first game on Thursday, it felt like a college campus during summer break.