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Rockets Forward Danuel House Jr. Under Investigation for Sneaking Female COVID-19 Testing Official Into Hotel Room

Iโ€™ve never spent a day of my life in the NBA bubble, but I have spent a notable portion of my time on Earth as a member of the United States Air Force. And immediately following Hellโ€”more commonly known as basic trainingโ€”I was shipped off to tech school in Biloxi, Miss., which is essentially the…

Iโ€™ve never spent a day of my life in the NBA bubble, but I have spent a notable portion of my time on Earth as a member of the United States Air Force. And immediately following Hellโ€”more commonly known as basic trainingโ€”I was shipped off to tech school in Biloxi, Miss., which is essentially the military equivalent of college.

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While there, I spent several months learning my job and acclimating to my new found life as government property. In exchange for my soul, I was provided lodging, healthcare and foodโ€”the complimentary PTSD wouldnโ€™t arrive until years laterโ€”but one of the rules in tech school was that we werenโ€™t allowed to leave the base under any circumstancesโ€”kinda like the NBA bubble.

You would think thousands of teenagers would go stir crazy under that type of mandate, but a military base is literally a miniature cityโ€”again, sorta kinda like the NBA bubble. We had bars, auto shops, Burger King, hospitals, a bowling alley, furniture stores, a bootleg Target, pretty much everything we neededโ€”everything but companionshipโ€”which reminds me of another rule: Women werenโ€™t allowed in our dorm rooms. Ever. And vice versa. Doing so was grounds for a dishonorable discharge from the military, and having your entire life ruined over sexual impropriety with somebody you barely knew wouldโ€™ve been all-time stupid.

All that to say since the NBA resumed play in July, players have been operating under similar mandates in order to circumvent the coronavirus pandemic. And much like tech school attendees, leaving the bubble is grounds for severe punishment, as is being caught with a woman in your room.

Enter Houston Rockets sixth man Danuel House Jr.

Antennas went up when he inexplicably missed Game 3 against the Lakers for โ€œpersonal reasonsโ€ on Tuesday, and now it appears the Texas A&M product has some explaining to do.

From Yahoo Sports:

Houston Rockets reserve Danuel House Jr. is under investigation by the league for allegedly allowing a female COVID-19 testing official into his hotel room, and his status for the remainder of the Western Conference semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers is in question, sources told Yahoo Sports.

Now is it possible that this unnamed female COVID-19 testing official merely broke protocol to administer a test? Sure. But when you factor in that most of these players have gone months without female interaction, and are acutely aware of the 113-page rule book that explicitly prohibits them from allowing anyone to enter their rooms, something ainโ€™t adding up.

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Again, we donโ€™t know what the hell happenedโ€”yetโ€”and while Iโ€™m here for the jokes, itโ€™s also important to point out that if House violated bubble protocol, his status for the duration of the Western Conference semifinals is in jeopardy, per to NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski.

For his part, House maintains that heโ€™s heeded Chirs Rockโ€™s advice and has abstained from having sex in the champagne room. The league will likely make its decision on the matter prior to Game 4 on Thursday, but in the interim, expect the jokes to continue to fly.

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