JaVale McGee Posting Cool Inside Bubble Content On YouTube Channel

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00:00 I'm Melissa Roland with Sports Illustrated and we're here with Jill Painter-Lopez.

00:06 So DeVaille McGee is giving us a behind the scenes look at life in the bubble.

00:10 On YouTube he's posting videos showing what it was like for him to head to Orlando and

00:15 leave his family.

00:16 Jill, tell us about the first episode.

00:19 Well Melissa, that first day in the NBA bubble is certainly interesting.

00:23 He started off with the car ride and the SUV.

00:26 He sat in the back seat, which was cute, with his three year old daughter Genevieve, who

00:30 he calls Gigi.

00:32 He was talking to her about why daddy's going away for a couple of months and how his family

00:37 can't join him for a couple of months.

00:39 He was talking to her about the coronavirus, even though she's three, saying "coronavirus."

00:43 He was kind of giving it a little bit of a fun name, as I'm sure she's heard it so much.

00:49 He shows himself once they board the flight, once they get to Orlando, the testing that

00:54 is done, the swab in the mouth really seemed to affect him a little more than the swabs

00:59 in both nostrils.

01:01 You get to see the courts in a ballroom of the Coronado Resort Hotel that they're at,

01:06 the NBA gifts that they got, the books that they got to read, the snacks.

01:11 Really just a cool inside look.

01:14 On the bus, showing the social distancing that even the Lakers have to do while they're

01:19 on the team bus.

01:20 So again, just an inside look.

01:22 As you know, media have so many restrictions and very, very limited access to players given

01:29 the COVID-19 pandemic.

01:30 So Javale McGee is becoming a little bit of a reporter for us.

01:33 He might have a career in YouTube influencing after this is all said and done.

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