Bubble rules are detailed

The NBA has long planned to allow guests to join its sealed Orlando campus after the first round of the playoffs. ESPN reported Tuesday on the rules governing who players are allowed to invite, and they’re extremely detailed.

• Each player is allowed four guests plus children, though only one game ticket per player will be issued, although the ticketholder can bring in a child (32 inches or smaller, i.e. babies).

• In the line that got the most attention, family and “established longstanding personal friends” are allowed in.

• In the line that got the second-most attention, players are not allowed to fly in people they found on dating apps or social media for the first time in Orlando. The league is banning “any individual the player has not previously met in person or with whom the player has had limited in-person interactions,” including anyone “known by the player only through social media or an intermediary,” according to ESPN.

• Anyone the player pays isn’t allowed in there either.

It seems like quintupling the amount of people on campus is risking introducing the coronavirus, but this has always been the plan for the final eight teams. Guests have to get tested and quarantine offcampus for seven days before they enter.

It’s unclear how the NBA plans to enforce any of these rules. Will there be a measuring tape for babies? Investigations of players’ phones and personal histories? How established and longstanding do you have to be to pass the twoprong test?

The news of the regulations was reported by Adrian Wojnarowski, whose own entry into Orlando was delayed over a suspension for a two-word email he sent last month to Sen. Josh Hawley. Wojnarowski reported the friends and family memo was shared with teams on Wednesday morning.