Before the Charlotte Hornets practice gym reopened Tuesday, rookie Cody Martin was scrounging for any place to stay sharp.
He’d occasionally talk someone into letting him use a high school gym. But mostly it was playground courts, and even that was a challenge with many towns disabling basketball goals to prevent pickup games during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was going park-to-park, looking for someplace to shoot,” said Martin during a Friday conference call with media. “A lot of the time, I would just be weightlifting at home.
“I would run near the mall outside, try to get conditioning or do footwork and agility things in a parking lot.