News, notes and observations while waiting for (some) NBA team facilities to open up next week.
· Steve Kerr told reporters this week that the Warriors were in “offseason mode,” anticipating that Golden State’s injury-riddled 15-win season was over. Kerr is right—or at least he should be. The NBA is correct to plot a post pandemic return, but it’s a little wacky to think that teams like Golden State or Cleveland should go through a three-week training camp just to come back to play a handful of meaningless regular season games. That may sting teams like Portland, New Orleans or Sacramento, teams with a mathematical chance of making the playoffs.