The NBA may never be the same again amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With the COVID-19 crisis persisting in the United States, the league is already discussing about possibly holding the 2020-21 campaign in a bubble like the resumed 2019-20 season in Orlando, Florida.

According to NBPA executive director Michele Roberts, the players union and NBA have begun discussions about “bubbling” the next season.

Per Tim Bontemps of ESPN:

“If tomorrow looks like today, I don't know how we say we can do it differently,” Roberts told ESPN about the future of the NBA. “If tomorrow looks like today, and today we all acknowledge — and this is not Michele talking, this is the league, together with the PA and our respective experts saying, ‘This is the way to do it' — then that's going to have to be the way to do it.”

“I'm not in the Trump camp in believing it's all going to go away in two weeks, but I'm praying, praying that there will be a different set of circumstances that will allow us to play in a different way. But because I don't know, all I know is what I know now. So it may be that, if the bubble is the way to play, then that is likely gonna be the way we play next season, if things remains as they are. …”

This week saw Major League Baseball get a rash of positive coronavirus cases, mainly centered around the Miami Marlins who played the Philadelphia Phillies in a three-game series to open up the shortened season. Since then, both clubs are on ice with games postponed while more tests are waiting to be revealed.

To that end, the NBA may have to be conservative and focus on the health and safety of its athletes. So far, it appears that the campus site in Walt Disney World is a success, with no coronavirus tests coming back positive despite several players like Zion Williamson and Lou Williams exiting and re-entering the bubble for personal reasons.

Get used to watching “bubbled” NBA games, because 2020-21 could be more of the same yet unorthodox setting for professional basketball.