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There's just no way of, you know, basically packing up the Lakers for three weeks and taking them to Texas to do it. Like, players don't want to do it. They've got families. They don't want to be traveling during times like this. They want to work out at their own facilities. And you can't do that with like 20 of the 30 teams in the league. Or even you want to limit the playoff teams you can't do with like

half the playoff teams that are in the league it's a nice thought mass that that the NBA has about

doing something like that but i've been on the phone all week and nobody has even presented one type

of credible way of doing it and every time i talk to general managers, they laugh at the idea.

It's just, it is not possible to do it unless every team opens their facility. By the way,

I have no problem with these facilities being open in states that have loosened their restrictions.

Because look, these guys are athletes. They're basketball players. If it's not at their team

facility, they're going to a damn equinox.

Like, they're going to find a place to work out,

and they might as well be working out at a sanitized facility

as opposed to, like, you know, 24-hour fitness

where they might catch some.

That was Chris Mannix on with us earlier.

Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, Boston, on what I thought was a setback or a reality check for the NBA.

And what he's talking about there is trying to square away the NBA opening up its buildings for their players to come in and work out, except what do you do if you're in a location that still has stay-at-home orders, like here

through May 18th now, according to Charlie Baker today or in California through May 15th, I think

the date is. And the NBA has said May 8th. These teams may start bringing in players for

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