The NBA will soon have 22 teams converge on Disney World to play its season. Some of these teams will not have the same preparation capacity as the others.
The Milwaukee Bucks joined that group on Sunday when they closed their practice facilities after receiving the results of coronavirus tests conducted on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The number of positive cases is not yet known.
The Bucks facility will reportedly not reopen before heading south to Orlando on Thursday.
The Milwaukee Bucks have closed the team’s practice facilities after receiving the results of a round of coronavirus tests on Friday, sources told ESPN. The team is not expected to reopen the training facility before the organization’s traveling party leaves for Orlando on Thursday.
– Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2020
The Bucks join a group that includes the Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat to close their practice facilities over coronavirus concerns. The Nuggets were the first to do so last week, followed by the Clippers on Thursday and the Heat on Friday.
Each of those teams has a varying degree of hope for winning what will be a highly unusual NBA playoffs, but the Bucks are clearly the most important. The team holds the NBA’s best 53-12 record and has MGM’s second best odds of winning the championship at +280, just behind the Los Angeles Lakers’ +250 mark.
The NBA’s revived season is still slated to begin on July 30.
The Bucks are still the favorites to win the Eastern Conference. (AP Photo / Aaron Gash)
