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Everything to know about NBA roster expansion and replacement players for restart in Orlando bubble
by gyso Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:40 am
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/everything-to-know-about-nba-roster-expansion-and-replacement-players-for-restart-in-orlando-bubble/
The transaction window opened last Tuesday and runs through June 30
By Jasmyn Wimbish
Jul 6, 2020 at 4:32 pm ET
The NBA is still laying the groundwork for the resumption of the 2019-20 season on July 30, but most of the broader strokes of the plan are already figured out. It's the smaller details that are still up in the air. There will be new information trickling in on a daily basis regarding all aspects of the league's restart, and it can be difficult to keep all the facts straight. One of the more important pieces the NBA needs to get figured out before heading to Orlando is roster size, and how teams will replace a player due to injuries or if someone tests positive for COVID-19.
There have been various reports on roster size and replacement players, and while nothing has been made official by the league yet, we can start to get a picture of what it will entail. So, here are some frequently asked questions on the matter to break down all the current info as clear as possible.
Q: How many extra roster spots do each team get ahead of the restart?
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are expected to agree on allowing teams to carry 17-man rosters into Orlando. Previously, teams were able to have 15 players on their roster, but as concerns about injuries and the potential for a player testing positive for the coronavirus rise, franchises want the ability to bring extra players into the bubble as an insurance policy.
Medical experts are concerned about increasing the number of people brought to Orlando, but giving teams the ability to have players already on site is far easier than trying to fly a player in at the drop of a hat. There isn't clarity yet on if players on two-way contracts will count against the 17 guys teams can bring to Disney World, but when The Athletic's Shams Charania first reported about the expanded roster size, he said that it would include two-way players.
Q: Will teams get to replace players who have already been injured?
There are several teams heading to Orlando who will already have key pieces missing from their rotations. The Utah Jazz will be without Bojan Bogdanovic, who underwent season-ending wrist surgery just a week after the season was postponed. LaMarcus Aldridge won't be suiting up for San Antonio after it was announced that he had shoulder surgery in April. The Nets will still be without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, while the Dallas Mavericks will be without Dwight Powell and Jalen Brunson, the latter of which had shoulder surgery in late March.
All of these teams will have extra roster spots to fill before the season restarts on July 30. As long as the number of players heading to Orlando for each team is 17 or below, there shouldn't be an issue. It's unclear if players like Irving and Durant would be able to join their respective teams in Orlando to support them, as the league wants to keep the number of people inside the bubble low. The traveling party for each team is expected to remain under 35 people each, so if a player wants to go to Orlando, it would count against that number.
Q: Which players are eligible to sign for extra roster spots?
It was previously reported that only players who were signed to an NBA or G League contract this season were in the pool of eligible players. However, that's since changed to potentially including players who have been on an NBA or G League contract either this season or last. Players who are deemed ineligible to be signed at this time are international players.
This significantly changes who teams will be able to bring to Orlando, outside of just two-way players. Guys like Jamal Crawford, Joe Johnson and JR Smith, who haven't been signed to a team all season, are now top targets for contending squads. On the flip side of that, if a team decides they want to just bring their two-way players to Orlando, the expanded roster sizes give them the ability to skip the hurdle of having to convert their G League contract into an NBA one and save the contract negotiations until after the season is over.
For someone like Oklahoma City rookie Luguentz Dort, who was starting consistently before the league was shut down, it allows him to have time to negotiate a longer-term contract as a restricted free agent this summer, instead of rushing to get a deal done to play for the remainder of the season.
Q: Would a player be replaced if he tests positive for COVID-19 during the season?
If a player tests positive and is asymptomatic, they will likely be quarantined for an unspecified amount of time before they are able to rejoin the team. If a player is showing symptoms, they would have to remain out of action until they are symptom-free. In either case, there are two avenues a team could take. The team can either decide to continue on without that player and hope they can return symptom-free in a short amount of time or, a team can decide to bring on a replacement player. According to a league memo to teams, replacing a player with COVID-19 must be done from the moment a player is confirmed positive up until seven days after he returns to practice, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The pool of eligible replacements would be the same as the players teams could sign to extra roster spots, which would include players who were signed to a G League or NBA contract either this season or last. However, the time it would take to fly in a player from outside the bubble and quarantine them before they can join the team may not even be worth it for some franchises. It's also expected that if a team brings in a replacement player during the season, the person who they are filling in for would not be able to return for the remainder of the season, per Wojnarowski.
Q: When can players be signed?
The transaction window opens June 22 at noon ET and ends in early July after the NBA and NBPA finalized terms of the new CBA for the season restart, Wojnarowski reports. Allowing teams to sign players before heading to Orlando will give them the opportunity to get some practice in before the games are expected to start on July 30. If a team suffers an injury during the resumed season, though, or has a player test positive for coronavirus it is expected that franchises will be allowed to sign replacement players until the postseason starts.
Until last week, the decision to add two extra roster spots to teams didn't seem like it would make much impact for the remainder of the season. Most teams carry roster sizes of 17, which includes two-way players, so many teams heading to Orlando wouldn't need to make major changes. However, after a call last Friday night, where about 80 NBA and WNBA players led by Kyrie Irving discussed the idea of potentially sitting out the season to focus more on the current racial injustice and police brutality in this country, teams might have legitimate holes to fill in their rotations.
No one has officially announced that they will sit out the NBA restart, however, two Lakers players, Avery Bradley and Dwight Howard have considered it. Both Bradley and Howard play key roles in the Lakers rotation. Howard was having a rejuvenated season in Los Angeles, while Avery Bradley is one of the Lakers' best perimeter defenders. If either of them were to sit out, the Lakers would have the ability to sign a free agent during the transaction window to fill their shoes. Any player who decides to sit out this season, though, whether it is due to safety concerns because of COVID-19, or because they want to focus on racial injustice, have to let their teams know by June 24.
The transaction window opened last Tuesday and runs through June 30
By Jasmyn Wimbish
Jul 6, 2020 at 4:32 pm ET
The NBA is still laying the groundwork for the resumption of the 2019-20 season on July 30, but most of the broader strokes of the plan are already figured out. It's the smaller details that are still up in the air. There will be new information trickling in on a daily basis regarding all aspects of the league's restart, and it can be difficult to keep all the facts straight. One of the more important pieces the NBA needs to get figured out before heading to Orlando is roster size, and how teams will replace a player due to injuries or if someone tests positive for COVID-19.
There have been various reports on roster size and replacement players, and while nothing has been made official by the league yet, we can start to get a picture of what it will entail. So, here are some frequently asked questions on the matter to break down all the current info as clear as possible.
Q: How many extra roster spots do each team get ahead of the restart?
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are expected to agree on allowing teams to carry 17-man rosters into Orlando. Previously, teams were able to have 15 players on their roster, but as concerns about injuries and the potential for a player testing positive for the coronavirus rise, franchises want the ability to bring extra players into the bubble as an insurance policy.
Medical experts are concerned about increasing the number of people brought to Orlando, but giving teams the ability to have players already on site is far easier than trying to fly a player in at the drop of a hat. There isn't clarity yet on if players on two-way contracts will count against the 17 guys teams can bring to Disney World, but when The Athletic's Shams Charania first reported about the expanded roster size, he said that it would include two-way players.
Q: Will teams get to replace players who have already been injured?
There are several teams heading to Orlando who will already have key pieces missing from their rotations. The Utah Jazz will be without Bojan Bogdanovic, who underwent season-ending wrist surgery just a week after the season was postponed. LaMarcus Aldridge won't be suiting up for San Antonio after it was announced that he had shoulder surgery in April. The Nets will still be without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, while the Dallas Mavericks will be without Dwight Powell and Jalen Brunson, the latter of which had shoulder surgery in late March.
All of these teams will have extra roster spots to fill before the season restarts on July 30. As long as the number of players heading to Orlando for each team is 17 or below, there shouldn't be an issue. It's unclear if players like Irving and Durant would be able to join their respective teams in Orlando to support them, as the league wants to keep the number of people inside the bubble low. The traveling party for each team is expected to remain under 35 people each, so if a player wants to go to Orlando, it would count against that number.
Q: Which players are eligible to sign for extra roster spots?
It was previously reported that only players who were signed to an NBA or G League contract this season were in the pool of eligible players. However, that's since changed to potentially including players who have been on an NBA or G League contract either this season or last. Players who are deemed ineligible to be signed at this time are international players.
This significantly changes who teams will be able to bring to Orlando, outside of just two-way players. Guys like Jamal Crawford, Joe Johnson and JR Smith, who haven't been signed to a team all season, are now top targets for contending squads. On the flip side of that, if a team decides they want to just bring their two-way players to Orlando, the expanded roster sizes give them the ability to skip the hurdle of having to convert their G League contract into an NBA one and save the contract negotiations until after the season is over.
For someone like Oklahoma City rookie Luguentz Dort, who was starting consistently before the league was shut down, it allows him to have time to negotiate a longer-term contract as a restricted free agent this summer, instead of rushing to get a deal done to play for the remainder of the season.
Q: Would a player be replaced if he tests positive for COVID-19 during the season?
If a player tests positive and is asymptomatic, they will likely be quarantined for an unspecified amount of time before they are able to rejoin the team. If a player is showing symptoms, they would have to remain out of action until they are symptom-free. In either case, there are two avenues a team could take. The team can either decide to continue on without that player and hope they can return symptom-free in a short amount of time or, a team can decide to bring on a replacement player. According to a league memo to teams, replacing a player with COVID-19 must be done from the moment a player is confirmed positive up until seven days after he returns to practice, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The pool of eligible replacements would be the same as the players teams could sign to extra roster spots, which would include players who were signed to a G League or NBA contract either this season or last. However, the time it would take to fly in a player from outside the bubble and quarantine them before they can join the team may not even be worth it for some franchises. It's also expected that if a team brings in a replacement player during the season, the person who they are filling in for would not be able to return for the remainder of the season, per Wojnarowski.
Q: When can players be signed?
The transaction window opens June 22 at noon ET and ends in early July after the NBA and NBPA finalized terms of the new CBA for the season restart, Wojnarowski reports. Allowing teams to sign players before heading to Orlando will give them the opportunity to get some practice in before the games are expected to start on July 30. If a team suffers an injury during the resumed season, though, or has a player test positive for coronavirus it is expected that franchises will be allowed to sign replacement players until the postseason starts.
Until last week, the decision to add two extra roster spots to teams didn't seem like it would make much impact for the remainder of the season. Most teams carry roster sizes of 17, which includes two-way players, so many teams heading to Orlando wouldn't need to make major changes. However, after a call last Friday night, where about 80 NBA and WNBA players led by Kyrie Irving discussed the idea of potentially sitting out the season to focus more on the current racial injustice and police brutality in this country, teams might have legitimate holes to fill in their rotations.
No one has officially announced that they will sit out the NBA restart, however, two Lakers players, Avery Bradley and Dwight Howard have considered it. Both Bradley and Howard play key roles in the Lakers rotation. Howard was having a rejuvenated season in Los Angeles, while Avery Bradley is one of the Lakers' best perimeter defenders. If either of them were to sit out, the Lakers would have the ability to sign a free agent during the transaction window to fill their shoes. Any player who decides to sit out this season, though, whether it is due to safety concerns because of COVID-19, or because they want to focus on racial injustice, have to let their teams know by June 24.
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Re: Everything to know about NBA roster expansion and replacement players for restart in Orlando bubble
by gyso Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:03 pm
NBA discussing how to replace players due to injury, coronavirus, sources say
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29275811/nba-discussing-how-replace-players-due-injury-coronavirus
Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks
Jun 6, 2020
The NBA is working on the mechanisms that will be used to replace participants in this season's resumption in the event of positive coronavirus tests or serious injuries in the Orlando bubble environment.
Sources told ESPN that the league and teams are already discussing how teams will be able to utilize players on two-way contracts, a conversation revolving around safety, practicality and competition that will assuredly be a part of the ramp-up to restarting the season at Disney World in July.
If COVID-19 or a serious injury strikes a team during training camps or the eight regular-season seeding games, there are expected to be no limitations on the number of players a team could sign to replace those lost, but there would be restrictions on those in the pool of eligible players, sources said.
These are among a long list of items that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association will have to negotiate in the next week, sources said. The NBA can make its recommendations to the union, but the sides will together have to agree upon changes to the collective bargaining agreement that will shape the NBA's 22-team truncated restart in Florida.
Eligible replacement players probably will have had to be signed in the NBA or G League or be on training camp contracts this season, sources said. Under these restrictions, for example, no team could sign veteran Jamal Crawford -- who went unsigned all season -- or an international player.
The league office has discussed the possibility with its teams that there could be a requirement that those players replaced for COVID-19 or injury would become ineligible to return for the balance of this season, sources said.
Front-office and union officials are expecting players who test positive to be quarantined for a minimum of seven days -- and possibly 10 to 14 -- based on several factors, sources told ESPN.
While the Brooklyn Nets are expected to have the option to sign players to fill the roster spots for the season-ending injuries to Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, sources said, teams don't anticipate there would be much sense in replacing a key player who tests positive for the coronavirus.
For one thing, there would be an opportunity to play without him, quarantine, and if symptom-free, hope he could return before the team had been eliminated. And unless it's a player on the distant end of the playing rotation, it's hard to imagine the kind of available replacement players who'd be worth flying to Orlando, quarantining for a week and indoctrinating into a new team instead of waiting on an asymptomatic COVID-19 positive player to be cleared to return to the lineup.
Teams are hopeful the league office will reconsider its preference to leave two-way contract players out of the bubble environment, sources said. Each organization is allowed two players on two-way contracts, which are deals that allow for players to spend as much as 45 days in the NBA and the rest of the season playing in the G League.
Many teams are making a case for those players to be able to join teams in Orlando, essentially as insurance policies for potential sickness and injury on rosters.
In large part due to the advice of medical experts pushing to keep the league's personnel numbers as limited as possible within the bubble, the NBA has preferred to keep those players out of Orlando, and keep rosters from expanding to 17 players, sources said.
To open camp with these players on the rosters of 22 teams would constitute an additional 44 people in the bubble environment --- and the NBA is searching for ways to keep those numbers down to limit possible virus carriers and positive tests.
Teams want the roster flexibility to keep two-way players living, training and isolated with teams in Orlando. Under the current proposal, players would be made to rejoin teams in the playoffs without having practiced with teams since early March. Once the postseason starts, teams could no longer add free agents -- only call up the two-way players.
With teams expected to play every other day in the playoffs, including some instances of back-to-back games, many organizations are struggling to imagine how two-way players could travel to Orlando to play soon enough -- or be prepared well enough -- to make a timely impact.
Players will be tested for COVID-19 every night in the contained Orlando campus environment, with test results returning the next morning, sources said. NBA teams will be contained to three specific hotels within the Disney complex, sources said.
The NBA is hopeful to allow teams to convert two-way players to NBA contracts beginning on June 22 until July 1, sources said. In this instance, for example, the Oklahoma City Thunder could convert the two-way contract of rookie guard Luguentz Dort, who had started 21 consecutive games before the season's shutdown.
Teams will start training in their markets and stagger arrivals beginning the first week in July, with training camps expected to start around July 9-11 in Orlando, sources said.
My comments: Roster limitations do not seem to be completely hashed out yet. The categories of potential additional players keeps increasing. So far, international players are not included. Stay tuned, I guess.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29275811/nba-discussing-how-replace-players-due-injury-coronavirus
Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks
Jun 6, 2020
The NBA is working on the mechanisms that will be used to replace participants in this season's resumption in the event of positive coronavirus tests or serious injuries in the Orlando bubble environment.
Sources told ESPN that the league and teams are already discussing how teams will be able to utilize players on two-way contracts, a conversation revolving around safety, practicality and competition that will assuredly be a part of the ramp-up to restarting the season at Disney World in July.
If COVID-19 or a serious injury strikes a team during training camps or the eight regular-season seeding games, there are expected to be no limitations on the number of players a team could sign to replace those lost, but there would be restrictions on those in the pool of eligible players, sources said.
These are among a long list of items that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association will have to negotiate in the next week, sources said. The NBA can make its recommendations to the union, but the sides will together have to agree upon changes to the collective bargaining agreement that will shape the NBA's 22-team truncated restart in Florida.
Eligible replacement players probably will have had to be signed in the NBA or G League or be on training camp contracts this season, sources said. Under these restrictions, for example, no team could sign veteran Jamal Crawford -- who went unsigned all season -- or an international player.
The league office has discussed the possibility with its teams that there could be a requirement that those players replaced for COVID-19 or injury would become ineligible to return for the balance of this season, sources said.
Front-office and union officials are expecting players who test positive to be quarantined for a minimum of seven days -- and possibly 10 to 14 -- based on several factors, sources told ESPN.
While the Brooklyn Nets are expected to have the option to sign players to fill the roster spots for the season-ending injuries to Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, sources said, teams don't anticipate there would be much sense in replacing a key player who tests positive for the coronavirus.
For one thing, there would be an opportunity to play without him, quarantine, and if symptom-free, hope he could return before the team had been eliminated. And unless it's a player on the distant end of the playing rotation, it's hard to imagine the kind of available replacement players who'd be worth flying to Orlando, quarantining for a week and indoctrinating into a new team instead of waiting on an asymptomatic COVID-19 positive player to be cleared to return to the lineup.
Teams are hopeful the league office will reconsider its preference to leave two-way contract players out of the bubble environment, sources said. Each organization is allowed two players on two-way contracts, which are deals that allow for players to spend as much as 45 days in the NBA and the rest of the season playing in the G League.
Many teams are making a case for those players to be able to join teams in Orlando, essentially as insurance policies for potential sickness and injury on rosters.
In large part due to the advice of medical experts pushing to keep the league's personnel numbers as limited as possible within the bubble, the NBA has preferred to keep those players out of Orlando, and keep rosters from expanding to 17 players, sources said.
To open camp with these players on the rosters of 22 teams would constitute an additional 44 people in the bubble environment --- and the NBA is searching for ways to keep those numbers down to limit possible virus carriers and positive tests.
Teams want the roster flexibility to keep two-way players living, training and isolated with teams in Orlando. Under the current proposal, players would be made to rejoin teams in the playoffs without having practiced with teams since early March. Once the postseason starts, teams could no longer add free agents -- only call up the two-way players.
With teams expected to play every other day in the playoffs, including some instances of back-to-back games, many organizations are struggling to imagine how two-way players could travel to Orlando to play soon enough -- or be prepared well enough -- to make a timely impact.
Players will be tested for COVID-19 every night in the contained Orlando campus environment, with test results returning the next morning, sources said. NBA teams will be contained to three specific hotels within the Disney complex, sources said.
The NBA is hopeful to allow teams to convert two-way players to NBA contracts beginning on June 22 until July 1, sources said. In this instance, for example, the Oklahoma City Thunder could convert the two-way contract of rookie guard Luguentz Dort, who had started 21 consecutive games before the season's shutdown.
Teams will start training in their markets and stagger arrivals beginning the first week in July, with training camps expected to start around July 9-11 in Orlando, sources said.
My comments: Roster limitations do not seem to be completely hashed out yet. The categories of potential additional players keeps increasing. So far, international players are not included. Stay tuned, I guess.
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Re: Everything to know about NBA roster expansion and replacement players for restart in Orlando bubble
by dboss Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:18 pm
Celtics arrived in Orlando yesterday per the travel schedule. I am pretty certain the roster will be their 15 guys plus Waters and Fall
https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2020/06/nba-restart-celtics-will-arrive-in-orlando-july-8-as-league-releases-dress-code-travel-schedule-report.html
https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2020/06/nba-restart-celtics-will-arrive-in-orlando-july-8-as-league-releases-dress-code-travel-schedule-report.html
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