The NBA tip hotline is back and Twitter erupted
Now that we know the 2020-21 NBA season will start on December 22, with training camps opening on December 1, we also learned recently that the NBA has brought back their “snitch-line,”otherwise known as the COVID-19 anonymous tip hotline.
The hotline made its debut during the 2019-20 season restart in the Orlando bubble and will be back for the entire 2020-21 campaign as outlined in the league’s newly released 134-page manual of COVID-19 safety protocols for the upcoming season. News of teams around receiving the manual began to leak Saturday morning, just days before training camps are set to open.
The NBA will establish an anonymous hotline to report potential violations of safety protocols during in-market play in 2020-21 season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. There was also a hotline for the Orlando restart.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 28, 2020
Of course, an announcement such as this will receive mixed reactions in the social media age. The jokes have already come pouring in and likely won’t stop anytime soon.
While many of the jokes aimed at Players Union President Chris Paul, he was not the only player subjected to the ridicule and mockery of Twitter Saturday morning.
The post refers to an incident during D’Angelo Russell’s rookie season in Los Angeles when he got caught secretly videotaping teammates, most notably Nick “Swaggy P” Young conversing about women other than his then-fiance, rapper Iggy Azalea.
Kawhi gonna call if PG hasn't fixed his jumper since the bubble pic.twitter.com/wAi8G4d0ys
— sports (@Sports_Pod100) November 28, 2020
And this just goes on and on for pages as you can imagine given it is Twitter after all.
Regardless of the jokes most reasonably discerning humans get it and understand that the hotline is a good thing, especially since there is no bubble this time around. Only time will tell how effective the hotline will be, along with the newly updated 134-page manual outlining all the protocols for teams to adhere to for the upcoming season.