After missing out on an invitation to the NBA’s restart at Disney World, the Golden State Warriors have created a bubble of their own. For the first time since the season was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the Warriors returned to the grounds of San Francisco’s Chase Center for team practices.
When they’re not working out at the practice facility, members of the Warriors will reside in Golden State’s campus-like atmosphere. The Warriors will live in the Bay Area bubble for the next two weeks.
While it’s not the NBA’s campus at Disney World, Golden State’s players and coaches will have some options for entertainment during their stay in “The Dubble.”
In a post-practice call with members of the media, Steve Kerr said the Warriors had transformed an upstairs room at the Chase Center into a lounge for players and coaches. The players’ lounge will feature games like cornhole, ping pong and pool.
Steve Kerr via Warriors Sound Cloud:
We’ve got a lot of entertainment. We’ve got a really good setup for the players and coaches to have a lot of fun, and a lot of bonding and camaraderie. We’ve got an upstairs room in Chase that we’ve kind of set up as a player lounge. It’s got a deck so we can get outside and get some fresh air and sunshine. And it’s sort of a big arcade. You’ve got a bunch of games — ping pong tables, cornhole and pool tables, so you know the players and coaches are going to spend a lot of time here at Chase.
Outside of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, a majority of Golden State’s championship core have moved on to new teams outside of the Bay Area. The Warriors offseason minicamp could serve as an opportunity for Golden State’s new arrivals to get familiar with Thompson and others before a crucial offseason begins.
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