The NBA shared a 113-page health and safety protocol with its teams Tuesday night, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The Athletic's Shams Charania adds, while players and coaches that sit on the front row of the bench will not be required to wear a mask during gameplay, the league is recommending that such coaches do wear masks during games.
Inactive players and coaches that sit in the second row must wear masks at all times, per The Athletic.
The news comes less than two weeks removed from commissioner Adam Silver's appearance on TNT's "Inside the NBA" in which Silver alluded to potentially having certain coaches not be able to serve as bench coaches.