The Boston Celtics began mandatory workouts at their Auerbach Center practice facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts on July 1st as the franchise prepares to restart the 2019-20 NBA season at Disney’s NBA campus.
That campus — held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida — is designed to function as a safer alternative than having teams travel to play one another as the league seeks to finish the coronavirus-interrupted season.
The Celtics had been hosting voluntary individual workouts before Wednesday, with the same precautions in place to prevent the spread of the virus in their home market continuing for the first few days of mandatory workouts.
Those measures include each player using their own hoop and ball with careful cleaning of any equipment used after it is put away, and coaching staff wearing masks when assisting players.
On the first day of mandatory workouts, the folks at MassLive got their hands on some video of point guards Kemba Walker and Tremont Waters, center Daniel Theis and wing Romeo Langford putting up shots.
The second day of workouts saw Theis continue his conditioning with some new faces — forward Semi Ojeleye and big mam Enes Kanter.
If you want to catch a glimpse of how Boston is getting back into game shape, check out the two embedded videos above. There’s still a long way to go before we see these guys ready for live-game action, but if nothing else their aim seems as good as ever.
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