NBA general managers and trainers will reportedly need a 30-day training period for players to get back in shape before games can begin.
There is reported concern rising among NBA general managers and athletic training staffers regarding the shape the league’s players whenever the schedule does resume. Some sources have told ESPN that even when the league is ready to start again, they will need at least a 30-day training period.
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“But I need these guys pushing their bodies for at least 30 days prior to the first meaningful basketball game,” one general manager told ESPN’s Baxter Holmes. “And by meaningful basketball game, I mean a postseason game.”
“You’ll have players] from one extreme to the other,” said an athletic training staff ficial. “So you’ve sort just got to go with the mindset, ‘No one’s been training how they should be and] everyone’s very out shape.'”
Milwaukee Bucks Forward Khris Middleton explained how he’s been handling the time f during a phone call with reporters:
Since the practice facility is closed down, I don’t have any access to a basketball goal unless I go to one my neighbors’ house to shoot outside. It’s really no basketball for me. Like Giannis Antetokounmpo] said, it’s the treadmill, the jump rope, some weights and that’s it. I have a couple basketballs I can just dribble in my house or outside, but no actual goal to go shoot on.
As Sunday, there is no set return date for the NBA season.
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