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Ben Golliver

Biography

Ben Golliver

Ben Golliver is the national NBA writer for the Washington Post, the host of Sports Illustrated’s "Open Floor" podcast, and the co-founder of the "Greatest of All Talk" NBA podcast. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars program, he has been covering the NBA since 2007. Previously a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, he joined the Washington Post in 2018 and lives in Los Angeles.

Ben Golliver

Books by Ben Golliver

Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season
by Ben Golliver - Nonfiction, Sports

When NBA player Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, the league shut down immediately. As the pandemic raged, it looked as if it might be the first year in league history with no champion. But four months later, after meticulous planning, 22 teams resumed play in a "bub­ble" at Disney World --- a restricted, single-site locale cut off from the outside world. Due to health concerns, the league invited only a handful of reporters, who were required to sacrifice medical privacy, live in a hotel room for more than three months, and submit to daily coronavirus test­ing in hopes of keeping the bubble from bursting. Ben Golliver, the national NBA writer for the The Washington Post, was one of those allowed access. BUBBLEBALL is his account of the season and life inside.