Chris Paul and Michele Roberts joke that they begin and end their days with Zoom calls, but it`s too close to the truth to be all that funny. The chain of communication is dizzying. Roberts will be on a call with Paul, who`s on a call with a league executive, who`s on a call with Disney, who`s on a call with who knows who in the NBA. Roberts, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, can`t think of a day since mid-March when she and Paul, president of the NBPA, didn`t talk. “Oh, God,” Roberts said Friday night at the end of another long week, “he`ll never get rid of me.” That streak of calls started from Chesapeake Energy Arena on March 11, when it became known that...
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