Warriors set for camp next month as NBA announces voluntary workouts for non-bubble teams

The Warriors will return to the court next month.

Well, some of them presumably will.

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Tuesday that teams that did not make the league’s summer restart will have voluntary group workouts beginning in September.

The Warriors are among eight teams that will hold these camps, beginning Sept. 14 with daily coronavirus testing and continuing individual workouts, as some players have been doing voluntarily already.

Sept. 21 will be the first day of group workouts, which may include practices, drills and scrimmages. Teams will continue to test involved players and staff daily, according to the league and players association’s joint release.

Teams will effectively keep players inside a “bubble”, like a smaller version of the NBA restart campus at Disney World: Players and team staff must stay at private team-arranged residences from their arrival until Oct. 6, when the camps end.

It seems fairly unlikely that the Warriors’ big-name players will be involved in the camps. Draymond Green said earlier this month that he wouldn’t opt out of a non-playoff bubble, but he doesn’t like the idea. Steph Curry said last month on Sportscenter that it’d be hard for him to play meaningless games in a second bubble comprised of multiple NBA teams, though he hasn’t shared his thoughts about a Warriors-specific camp.

With a bunch of young players filling out the roster around the Warriors’ stars, Golden State could certainly use the camp to develop some of its role players, but it remains to be seen how many will choose to travel to the Bay Area and stay inside a campus environment just for team practices.

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Author: Michael Nowels

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