“I mean, hopefully we’re at the point …

“I mean, hopefully we’re at the point to where we’re adults and we don’t need consequences to motivate our actions,” Lakers guard Alex Caruso said. “We’re all here for a reason. If you didn’t want to come, you didn’t have to come. They put rules in place to keep everybody safe, to make sure we can all continue to do what we want to do and play basketball. So the 10 days is obviously an intimidating number. That might be the motivation behind it to put a little bit of fear into you to follow the rules. My hope is we’re all professionals for a reason (and) we can continue to hold ourselves to that level and that standard.”