No fans will be allowed in the stands, which has been the policy at basketball tournaments world-wide during the pandemic. Jordan Crawford, who was with the Pelicans from 2016-18, played for Brose Bamberg inside the German Basketball Bundesliga bubble. He said the most difficult part of the experience was playing six games in a 13-day span. Crawford only had two weeks of practice before games restarted. NBA players will have a little less than two weeks of practice before scrimmages begin. “When it got to game two, three, four, five and six, I couldn’t recover fast enough,” Crawford said. “I wasn’t feeling fresh. My legs were weak. I couldn’t move as quick. On the defensive end, I couldn’t react to people. I don’t like to be cocky or nothing like that, but that competition wasn’t that much. If I could’ve moved the way I wanted to move, we could’ve really won the thing.”