Thursday night, the Golden State Warriors and the New Jersey Nets will become the first NBA teams in the current pandemic to play a game without fans. In 1989, Siena's men's basketball team played nine games in front of empty arenas, and despite a triumphant outcome, it was, to quote point guard Marc Brown, "awful." The story of Siena University's bizarre late-season run to the 1989 NCAA tournament — a stretch that featured exactly zero fans in attendance, thanks to a measles outbreak on campus — has taken on new resonance in the last few days.