Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on all things, Warriors.

Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network.

I'm West Goldberg, Warriors Beat Reporter for the Mercury News.

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I've got some mail to get to later today, plus with the news that the delete eight teams will be able to invite G-League players to a voluntary camp next month.

I want to get to some names of who the Warriors could bring in. But let's start

there with the news. The NBA announced Tuesday night that the eight teams not invited to the

restart at Disney World will be able to hold voluntary practices and scrimmages from September

14th to October 6th. They'll be kind of mimicking the bubble in Orlando with private living

accommodations, daily coronavirus testing, and all that sort of stuff.

But why does this matter for the Warriors?

Well, number one, this is going to break up that nine-month gap in between the NBA's hiatus in mid-March to the tentative start of next season, which again, tentatively set for the beginning of December.

If they didn't get this training camp sort of deal, then that would have been nearly a year, nine months, without any team activities,

no team practices, nothing like that.

And for a team that is trying to vault back into contention next year with so many moving parts,

with so many players, core players who have never played together or hardly have played together,

trying to start next season with nine months of a break in between

was going to be a problem.

And this was something that the team privately considered a huge disadvantage.

Players, coaches, the front office, they had been pushing for something like this to happen.

I think this is very encouraging news for the Warriors. What they didn't want to was to create

some sort of other bubble situation. There were some rumors before the league was toying with the

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