NBPA's Roberts: 2020-21 season may need to be played in bubble

NBPA executive director Michele Roberts believes the league playing the 2020-21 campaign inside a bubble may be necessary if current risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic persist.

"If tomorrow looks like today, I don't know how we say we can do it differently," Roberts told ESPN's Tim Bontemps on Tuesday. "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."

Thus far, the NBA's bubble setup has contained the spread of COVID-19 among players. The league's most recent round of testing revealed zero positive cases among the 346 players tested.

Those results come as the United States remains the epicenter of the pandemic, with 4.3 million confirmed cases nationwide as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Roberts also expressed approval of the bubble's facilities, and she's pleased with the players' response to their new surroundings.

"Nothing is perfect, and knock on wood every day and cross my fingers every day that no one has gotten infected since we've been here," she added. "But this is clearly, we've happened upon the way to play. And the players are largely cool with it."