One of the go-to mantras from the Gregg Popovich coaching handbook is a leaguewide credo now. No one in the NBA, as Popovich has been saying in San Antonio for years, wants to be caught “skipping steps” as the league begins the most challenging undertaking in its history.
This stage of populating the NBA’s bubble is of critical importance and comes with considerable apprehension baked into it. Despite the league’s persistent belief that life on the campus will be safer than anywhere else NBA personnel could be outside it, there is no diminishing the daunting nature of erecting and controlling a single-site environment for more than 300 players on a scale that has never been attempted.
Although several coaches have raved about the diligence many players have shown to stay as close to game-readiness as possible, every coach not-so-secretly wishes his team had more prep time to reduce the risk of soft-tissue injuries. The standard NBA offseason, remember, features weeks and weeks of pickup games.
Complicating matters is the abrupt nature of the NBA’s pause March 11. As Pete Youngman, the former director of sports medicine for the Sacramento Kings who held a full-time role with the franchise for 25 years, noted in a telephone interview, many players were “in their peak, prime condition” when the season was indefinitely suspended.
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