The first few days may have been chaos, but teams have officially begun practicing in Orlando—and not a moment too soon for most players
on July 13, 2020 5:30 am
Brad Stevens barely had a chance to step outside his Disney World hotel room Friday before he was shuttled 10 minutes away for the Celtics’ first practice in Orlando. He had just finished quarantining for 36 hours, but Stevens was already thinking about the following day’s practice, and Sunday’s session, too.
“I probably had a different [idea of the] practice schedule three weeks ago than now after seeing the practice schedule,” Stevens said. The team’s Friday practice lasted just half of the allotted three hours, in part because the group had to turn around quickly for Saturday’s 9 a.m. workout, which made it difficult to go hard on either day. Then, ahead of Sunday’s session, the team had to switch gyms at the last minute and work without Kemba Walker, who did not practice as part of a slower ramp-up process. “There will just be some things like that that we’ll have to adjust to,” Stevens said. “We’re able to hit curveballs if we need to.”
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