Nonbubble NBA teams like Warriors get camp

The Warriors — as well as the seven other teams that weren’t invited to the NBA bubble in Orlando — will be allowed to hold voluntary workouts under controlled conditions, the league announced Tuesday night.

The workouts, which will run Sept. 14Oct. 6, will be implemented in phases that adhere to comprehensive safety protocols. From Sept. 14 to Sept. 20, teams can continue voluntary individual workouts at team facilities as players and coaches who plan to participate in group workouts begin to get tested daily for COVID-19.

The second phase, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 6, will involve group workouts that can include everything from practices to conditioning to intrasquad scrimmages while players and coaches continue to receive daily COVID-19 testing. Each of the eight teams not invited to Orlando will create its own campuslike environments in its home cities that will include private living accommodations for players and staff.

Staying in such campuslike accommodations will be a requirement for anyone hoping to participate in group workouts. Participation in the group workouts is voluntary. Teams are allowed to include up to five players in the sessions who are not under an NBA contract, but who were assigned to the team’s G League affiliate this past season.

According to a league source, the Warriors are “very pleased” about Tuesday’s news. There had been concern that, if group workouts weren’t allowed, Golden State would be at a competitive disadvantage entering the 202021 season.

Without such workouts, the Warriors, Charlotte, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Minnesota and Cleveland would have had to go nine months without practicing or scrimmaging as a team.

Klay Thompson, who missed the entire 201920 season with a knee injury, has been working out individually in recent weeks and should be available to participate in group workouts.