Former NBA small forward Richard Jefferson believes the NBA's “snitch hotline” shouldn't actually be called that.
The current ESPN basketball analyst says the NBA's hotline down in Orlando, Florida is necessary.
“Karl-Anthony Towns’ mom passed away. There are people passing away all around this country. This is not snitching if somebody is risking everyone’s health and safety,” Richard Jefferson said on Yahoo Sports, via HoopsHype.
“It is not snitching if someone’s risking billions of dollars by going outside the bubble to do something that they are not supposed to do. That’s not snitching. That is if you see something, say something. The fact that they let you do it anonymously, that makes it even better.”
Multiple tips have been placed into the NBA’s anonymous hotline to report protocol violations at Disney World.
We’ve already had some mishaps in Orlando, as Sacramento Kings big man Richaun Holmes accidentally crossed the NBA’s campus line at the Walt Disney World Resort to pick up some food, Houston Rockets forward Bruno Caboclo unintentionally broke quarantine by leaving his room during the initial quarantine period and Los Angeles Lakers star Dwight Howard was roaming around the campus without his mask applied on his face.
Portland Trail Blazers big man Jusuf Nurkic announced on Friday that his grandmother is in a coma due to COVID-19. With all of this said, Jefferson is right; this NBA hotline isn't really used for “snitching.”
Instead, it's available so that the bubble remains free of COVID-19 and the NBA can finish the 2019-20 season.
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