We are beginning to get an outline of how Boston Celtics two way players Tacko Fall and Tremont Waters will spend their seasons in 2020-21.
The New York Times’ Marc Stein reports that the NBA G League season may end up being held in a bubble environment akin to what was done to salvage the 2019-20 season for the NBA at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida this fall.
That ‘bubble’ would be in Atlanta, Georgia according to Stein — though he notes not all 28 teams may participate in the arrangement, which faces a number of logistical challenges to work out apart from the COVID-19 protocols and other pandemic-related concerns.
One option for the forthcoming NBA G League season that has gained some traction, sources say, is a bubble concept in the Atlanta area that would cost NBA teams an entry fee in the $500,000 range
Not all 28 G League teams, under that proposal, would be expected to participate
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 27, 2020
Chief among them will be working out how players will move between the club of their G League assignment — in Fall and Waters’ case, the (Portland) Maine Red Claws — and the parent club.
Due to the potential for quarantining players who have come into contact with people with positive COVID-19 diagnoses, teams may prefer having their 2-way players with the team for most of or even all of the NBA season.
For now, there’s still much work to be done to make such a proposal more than just that — a prospective direction to take.
But with the NBA season less than a month off and training camps even closer, expect to hear more about the future of the NBA’s developmental league in the short term.
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