{"id":783,"date":"2020-06-24T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:11:51","slug":"avery-bradley-will-not-play-for-the-lakers-when-nba-season-resumes-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/avery-bradley-will-not-play-for-the-lakers-when-nba-season-resumes-at-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Avery Bradley Will Not Play for the Lakers when NBA Season Resumes at Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avery Bradley<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will not play<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NBA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> season resumes at Disney World in July, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski. The driving force of his decision, according to Wojnarowski, is the health of his family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bradley has three children, and his six-year-old son has a history of respiratory illnesses that likely would have prevented him from entering the bubble. Bradley had also been one of the leaders of a coalition of players that were concerned over the message that playing would send in light of the social justice climate following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As committed to my Lakers teammates and the organisation as I am, I ultimately play basketball for my family,&#8221; Bradley said, via Wojnarowski. &#8220;And so, at a time like this, I can&#8217;t imagine making any decision that might put my family&#8217;s health and well-being at even the slightest risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As promised also, I will use this time away to focus on the formation of projects to help strengthen my communities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lakers signed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dion Waiters<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an extra guard just before the season shut down. They will also turn to incumbents <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kentavious Caldwell-Pope<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Caruso<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajon Rondo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for bigger roles with Bradley out. Bradley had nominally been the starting point guard for the Lakers, serving as a defensive stopper on the perimeter and a valuable shooter to space the floor for their bigger players.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA restarts its season on July 31 at Walt Disney World. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7gt9rxSfDu\">https:\/\/t.co\/7gt9rxSfDu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiNewTimes\/status\/1275059715718836228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lakers will now have an open roster spot to fill during the NBA&#8217;s transaction window, which began Tuesday. Bradley&#8217;s spot in the starting lineup will likely go to Caldwell-Pope, who filled in for Bradley during a midseason injury. The Lakers are 16-3 with Caldwell-Pope in the starting lineup, and he made 51 percent of his field goals and 42.9 percent of his 3-pointers with Bradley out of the starting five.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the initially reported deadline for players to opt-out of going to Disney was June 24, Wojnarowski <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports that<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NBA teams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are treating that as a soft deadline. Teams are acting as though July 1, when final rosters are due, is the true deadline. Another Laker, Dwight Howard, is on the fence about joining the team in Orlando. The team, however, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expects him<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bradley stands to surrender approximately $650,000 in salary for sitting out at Disney, but he has a player option for around $5 million next season. This was not a financial decision for Bradley, though. It was one based in the wellbeing of his family and community, and that is commendable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avery Bradley will not play for the Los Angeles Lakers when the NBA season resumes at Disney World in July, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Avery Bradley Will Not Play for the Lakers when NBA Season Resumes at Disney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avery Bradley will not play for the Los Angeles Lakers when the NBA season resumes at Disney World in July, according to ESPN&#039;s Adrian Wojnarowski.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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