Inside the NBA Bubble

A Championship Season Under Quarantine

By: Jared Dudley, Carvell Wallace

Narrated by: Jared Dudley

A single-sitting, pause-resisting, behind-the-scenes account of the NBA lockdown at Disney World by Jared Dudley of the world champion Los Angeles Lakers.

Omens in China. The tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. A novel coronavirus and the protests honoring George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. For Jared Dudley and the Los Angeles Lakers, the suspended 2019-2020 NBA season was, from the beginning, about more than winning basketball games. But what now?

This is the year of the Bubble, a vacated Disney World, and the nearly one hundred days that 350 players and personnel from twenty-two NBA teams isolated from their friends and family, testing their patience for a dorm-style solution to America’s lost pandemic sports season - but also inspiring them. In a country violently divided by more than COVID-19, the Lakers rise to the occasion. From initial quarantine to the best basketball ever played by LeBron James and Anthony Davis to transitioning again to the real world, Jared Dudley shares his winning memories of a personal and professional victory from inside the NBA Bubble.

©2021 by Jared Dudley. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“With this audiobook, the listener will gain an understanding of how the NBA responded to the coronavirus pandemic. Author/narrator Jared Dudley views the tumultuous season from his vantage point as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, who won the championship. … Dudley is not a polished narrator, but his deep voice and clear diction resonate in this concise work.… His voice is as real as his thoughts about the pandemic's emotional impact.” –AudioFile Magazine

Great Story

Loved hearing his opinion on his bubble experience. Had me wanting to hear more.

Great work

I Loved hearing and listening to your different perspective! Played the audio straight through. Awesome narrating Dudz! Good luck the rest of the way man!!

behind the scenes in the bubble

I loved it. it was short, but it was straight to the point. I like the part where he said this is either hell or the best days of my life and he describes why

Hanging with the Ladr

This was an inside look at the Lakers during a heartbreaking and heartwarming season. The loss of Kobe, Covid19 and a new championship all in one tumultuous season. Narrated by Jared Dudley, this is a must for any Lakers fan, a true insiders guide to what really happened.

Great, fun, quick read!

Jared himself narrated this book and you can tell he obviously isn't a professional voice actor but he did a good job of showing off his personality. As a big sports fan and particularly a Lakers fan, this book did a good job of taking you right back to that moment in time. There wasn't a lot of information that was particularly new for someone like me who follows this stuff pretty closely, but the descriptions of everything did a great job of placing you right back to wherever you were when those moments happened. A good quick read to take someone back along that crazy ride in the world of sports during the peak of COVID.