Yet there is some tangible trepidation heading into Showcase 2021, which is the NBA’s first in the COVID Era. I’ve heard from a number of people planning to attend Dec. 19-22 who are reconsidering those plans. No one seems quite sure how 29 G League teams, which will be playing their games and spending their nights lodging at the Mandalay Bay, can fend off the virus any better than all the NBA teams presently under siege.