California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced earlier Monday that the state could begin hosting professional sports events again without fans as early as the first week of June amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic:
"Money changes everything," San Francisco 49ers All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman responded. "Teams started exploring options outside the state and all of a sudden the timeline changed."
Sherman was presumably alluding to a report from Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer on May 11:
"A number of teams are already deep into exploring out-of-state training camp sites, in anticipation that their states' restrictions will make staging camp at home in late July and early August impossible.