{"id":1001,"date":"2020-05-14T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsherald.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:31:12","slug":"handful-of-kings-players-have-returned-to-practice-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/articles\/handful-of-kings-players-have-returned-to-practice-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Handful&#8221; of Kings players have returned to practice facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time since the NBA shut down on March 11th, which feels like an eternity ago, the Sacramento Kings reopened their practice facilities as they previously announced their intentions to in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/sacramento-kings-open-practice-facility-under-new-rules\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">formal statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the policies and procedures in place for when players returned to the facility included:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No more than four players will be permitted into the facility at any one time<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No group activity will occur, including scrimmages<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff and players are required to always wear a facemask except players when involved in physical activity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Temperatures of anyone entering the facility will be recorded for additional safety\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30-minute sanitizing breaks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Ham of NBC Sports reported yesterday that a \u0080\u009chandful of Kings players made it out to the practice facility on Monday for voluntary workouts\u0080\u009d in a tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A handful of Kings players made it out to the practice facility on Monday for voluntary workouts. Everything \u201cwent smoothly\u201d under new guidelines according to league source. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbVEeW71MF\">pic.twitter.com\/PbVEeW71MF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Ham (@James_HamNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/James_HamNBA\/status\/1260353873404768256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though it&#8217;s unclear about the specifics of who those players were and how many exactly to meet the policies in place, the practice went smoothly for everyone involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s still no word on when the NBA season will officially resume (if it even will) but it definitely looks like the players want to be back on the court again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the NBA shut down on March 11th, which feels like an eternity ago, the Sacramento Kings reopened their practice facilities as they previously announced their intentions to in a formal statement.\u00a0 Some of the policies and procedures in place for when players returned to the facility included:\u00a0 No more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,16],"tags":[39,28],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Handful&quot; 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