With all that is happening in our world today and over these last few months, the return to NBA basketball is far from the most important thing to focus on. Brad Stevens echoed that sentiment the other day when he stated that “empathy means more than basketball right now”. Across the nation, NBA players are demonstrating this by focusing their time and energy on the larger societal issues at hand of racism, discrimination and police brutality whether it be through use of their far-reaching social platforms, by joining and leading protests as we have seen from multiple members of the Celtics, or both. With that being said, the NBA and it’s thirty franchises did officially agree upon a plan for a return-to-play format this week with Disney World’s ESPN complex as the “bubble” venue.