Author: Mark Medina, USA TODAY

After a week of quarantine in the NBA’s bubble at Disney World, USA TODAY Sports’ Mark Medina finally got the chance to leave his hotel room.

Lakers center Dwight Howard said it was “pointless” that someone recently reported him to NBA’s Campus Hotline for not wearing a mask in the bubble.

“He’s a competitor” James Harden said of himself after taking part in his first practice with his Rockets teammates in the NBA bubble in Florida.

Charles Barkley and Draymond Green will be part of a new show called “The Arena,” a one-hour long NBA show that TNT will launch on July 20.

After a tumultuous journey just to get to the NBA bubble in Orlando, Nikola Jokic still isn’t sure when he can participate in Nuggets practices.

Harrison Barnes, who becomes the fourth Kings player to test positive for COVID-19, says he tested positive before the team departed for Orlando.

For better and for worse, NBA teams have already learned what it is like to live in a whole new world inside the Walt Disney World bubble.

“It doesn’t matter if we have a statement on the back of our jersey. It’s about doing the work,” Kawhi Leonard said discussing social justice.

USA TODAY Sports’ Mark Medina chronicles his first days inside the NBA campus bubble in Orlando and how reporters are settling in at Disney World.