In the summer of 2020, after a monthslong interruption courtesy of the pandemic, the NBA resumed play. The final games of the league’s regular season and the playoffs took place inside the “Bubble,” an isolated complex at Walt Disney World, with no fans in attendance.
As Dan Shaughnessy notes in his colorful, fast-paced new book on the Boston Celtics’ dynasty years of the 1980s, the few writers who attended were required to sign waivers promising they would refrain from approaching any players or coaches outside of officially sanctioned media events.
Rules about journalists interacting with professional athletes were already growing increasingly strict, Shaughnessy writes, before the Bubble “pulled the final curtain on the access that had made covering teams fun and informative in the Stone Age” of his early career. “Wish It Lasted Forever” is the longtime Globe sportswriter’s fond remembrance of his brief time covering one of basketball’s all-time great teams.
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