At long last, the NBA will be returning on July 30 after a multiple-month delay due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While it will certainly be great to see some of the NBA’s biggest stars play again, one notable byproduct of having every major star contained in the NBA’s “bubble” is the fact that rampant tampering is all but assured.

According to Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports, one NBA coach inside the NBA’s campus at Disney World in Orlando, Florida believes that the next superteam will likely be put together during this period in sunny Florida.

“The next super team will come out of this,” the NBA coach told Yahoo Sports. “I believe it’s inevitable. I walk into my hotel, I see [All-Star player] in the lobby,” he said. “We’re on the elevator, I get off on one floor, he’s on another. If I knew him like that and wanted to meet up with him, I could. We could golf, we could fish. There’s so much to do in the downtime, the league can’t police that stuff.”

While “inevitable” is certainly a strong word to use, more and more NBA players are taking matters into their own hands and recruiting other big names to join their teams.

Simply look at the movements last offseason when big names such as LeBron James and Anthony Davis on the Los Angeles Lakers, Russell Westbrook and James Harden on the Houston Rockets, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George on the Los Angeles Clippers and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets all seemingly “tampered” with one another to end up on the same team.

It’s tough for the NBA to police, and the Orlando “bubble” does indeed seem like a fruitful place for this sort of recruiting to take place. We shall see if the coach quoted ends up being correct in the long run.

Most NBA pundits believe players from the Lakers, Miami Heat and Toronto Raptors will try and tamper with Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, who can become a free agent in 2021 if he doesn't sign the supermax extension with the Bucks this summer.