Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is among the sites the NBA is considering to host the rest of its season, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. Sources tell Charania that it’s one of several areas being looked at if the league decides to hold all its games in a single location.
Disney provides several advantages for the league, points out Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer (via Twitter). The resort offers ample hotel space and multiple basketball courts that are already set up to handle live television and radio broadcasts. He notes that because Disney is a privately owned property, it would be easier to manage than Las Vegas, which has also been mentioned as a potential site.
Disney already partners with the NBA by owning ABC and ESPN, which both have television deals with the league, adds Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Keith Smith of Yahoo Sports floated the idea of bringing the NBA to Disney in a column two weeks ago.
So happy we have Dana White and him not bowing to this ridiculous nonsense.
Except he did bow down, he just proved to be a blustery loudmouth with no ability to back up his talk. Seems appropriate nowadays.
You want lil Stevie to travel the whole span of the United States just to throw some more games? GL
It would be cool to play there. Actually, coach Pierce probably wouldn’t even play me :(
Perfect place for a Mickey Mouse idea.
Disney World, as a singular grounds owner, would be able to enforce the health & safety discipline that commish Silver would probably barely try, and that Vegas would compromise for commercial reasons.
Anyone can see the Magic Kingdom is the best option, only silly people might think of Vegas, but boy is Orlando the best option!
Does Disney really have enough basketball courts/arenas to make this work? I know they’ve got some but I wouldn’t have expected them to actually have sufficient space for the entire league (or I guess just the playoff teams if they skip the end of the regular season) — assuming they do I think it’s a great idea — anything to be able to have some sort of finish to the NBA season would be great! Just really never thought of Disney having sufficient basketball arenas to host that much basketball.
Also have Amway Arena near by to.