The Suns have joined the list of teams inviting players back to their practice facility for voluntary individual workouts, according to Marc Stein of The New York Times (Twitter link).
Making their facility available was a little more complicated for the Suns than for most teams, since the club’s Talking Stick Resort Arena is undergoing renovations and its new practice facility is under construction. As previously noted, and as Stein confirms today, Phoenix will use its old arena, the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, for workouts.
As is the case for every other NBA team reopening a practice facility, the Suns will be subject to the NBA’s strict regulations, which call for no more than four players in the building at a time.
The Suns are the 19th team known to have reopened its facility. Earlier today, when we passed along word of the Timberwolves reopening their building, we listed the 12 clubs that had yet to do so — we can now remove Phoenix from that list.
Stein reported earlier this week that teams may end up conducting de facto training camps at their own facilities this summer before traveling to a centralized location to resume the 2019/20 season, so it’s a step in the right direction that nearly two-thirds of the NBA’s teams have reopened so far.