‘Trying to make the most of it’

Part of success in the NBA is reading the room, even if that room is at Disney World, in a quarantine bubble, amid a pandemic.

So if Rajon Rondo, before breaking his thumb at practice, chooses to go on Instagram to compare his accommodations to a Motel 6, so be it. But staying at the same Coronado Springs resort as Rondo’s Los Angeles Lakers, the Miami Heat simply are rolling with the times, as unique as these times have been, during the coronavirus pandemic.

“I think you just make an adjustment. I think for us it’s just important to try to adjust to the new normal,” forward Andre Iguodala said amid the Heat’s practices in advance of the league’s restart later this month. “It’s funny to say that, because everyone is adjusting to a new normal. You got to empathize, and you got to have an understanding from a worldly perspective in terms of people who don’t have jobs. Unemployment is at an all-time high historically for our country. Last month was pretty good, but with the shutdown in a lot of different states, traveling restrictions, quarantines moving from state to state, you got people worried about that and just trying to get back to work. And the wealthier are getting wealthier. Companies are getting bigger.

“So if you have that grand-scheme perspective in terms of what’s going on with people, you should be able to adjust and have an understanding that everybody is doing the best they can to deal with their environment and circumstances and just trying to make the most of it.”