Ejecting Danuel House Was the Right Call. The NBA Should've Left it at That. - Sports Illustrated

– Houston Rockets swingman Danuel House Jr.

just got ejected from the NBA bubble for, in the league’s words, having an unauthorized guest in his hotel room “over multiple hours”—which, if House were single, would only help his reputation.

A bubble with holes is not a bubble.

If the Rockets are mad, they should be mad at House.

But let’s also acknowledge this: It is, at the very least, weird and uncomfortable for a league to tell the world that a player had somebody in his hotel room who should not have been there.

Imagine, a year ago, the NBA announcing that a player got caught with somebody in his hotel room.

Why not just say House violated bubble protocols, and leave it at that?

Why say he had somebody in his hotel room “over multiple hours”?

Sports had already reported that House had allowed “a female COVID-19 testing official” into his room.

The NBA had to eject House, and it had to announce that House violated protocols.