Players will need more than two weeks of preparation to get back to shape, according to an NBA GM.
As league officials and staff members believe, players will need a significant period of time in order to get ready to play once the suspension is over.
“If you tell us two weeks in advance, and all we have is a two-week training camp to [get] guys back to work that have been out of work eight weeks, that’s a mess,” one NBA general manager said.
“You’ll have [players] from one extreme to the other,’ said one athletic training staff official involved with numerous NBA players. ‘So you’ve sort of just got to go with the mindset, No one’s been training how they should be [and] everyone’s very out of shape,” Baxter Holmes of ESPN reports.
