![]() ![]() “Normal as we knew it changed in mid-March, and how we step forward will change daily.”Īccording to Oleksiak, the games will mostly seem familiar to Philadelphia sports fans, aside from the empty arenas. “I think everyone is trying to determine what will be their new normal,” Oleksiak said. As a result, NBA teams will be playing in a quarantined “bubble” in Florida on courts surrounded by LED screens that make it look less like an empty area and more like a television studio. The return of the NBA, MLB, and NHL is being greeted as a milestone towards normalcy, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to plague the country. “I’m going to do my best to make it as entertaining as possible because I think people are really hungry for this.” “I’m just thankful to be doing games,” Zumoff said. It’s one of three exhibition games NBC Sports Philadelphia will air before the season officially restarts on July 30. Zumoff, now in his 26th year as the Sixers’ play-by-play announcer on NBC Sports Philadelphia, will call an NBA game remotely for the first time in his career on Friday, when the team takes on the Memphis Grizzlies in an exhibition game at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resorts outside Orlando, Florida. The last time Marc Zumoff called a game without fans was back in 1969, when he used television static as a stand-in for fans cheering an imaginary Wilt Chamberlain hook shot. ![]()
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