While we don’t have any official schedules released, the NBA and its Player’s Association appear headed towards a restart of the season starting in late July at the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. But one issue that players have consistently brought up over the past few weeks is their questions with the restrictions the NBA has mandated on workouts at their home practice facilities. But as we’ve heard, even before teams opened their facilities, is that players have found ways around the policies: don’t play at their practice facilities.
According to Bill Simmons and New Orleans Pelicans guard/Ringer podcast host JJ Redick, the Lakers have been working out together at a private court that a basketball superfan has at his home in the L.A. neighborhood of Bel-Air.
Bill Simmons and JJ Redick hint that the Lakers have been secretly scrimmaging throughout quarantine at a mansion in Bel-Air with a replica Staples Center court. pic.twitter.com/WCdSTaS1Wu
— ³𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚 🐺 (@33643pts) June 19, 2020
As Redick said, NBA players who are living or visiting Los Angeles usually can get easy access to the court. Damian Lillard used it a few years ago for this hilarious video spoofing the genre of offseason workout videos.
When you don’t post your workouts that means they never happened 🤷🏽♂️ … so here’s what y’all love to see pic.twitter.com/wOhsy2irNN
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) September 15, 2018
Obviously, LeBron and the rest of the Lakers are doing what they can to keep their edge, even if they aren’t technically playing by the rules.
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