It has been eight weeks since the Warriors appeared in a game, and the players and coaches are as eager to get back in the gym as Dub Nation is to see live games.
Do not expect that anytime soon, despite California Governor Gavin Newsom announcing this week that he is targeting Friday to move into Phase Two of a four-phase plan to allow some businesses, including retail stores and warehouse suppliers, to reopen.
There still is no timeline for basketball practices, much less games, in the Bay Area, where the shelter-in-place order extended through May has not been lifted.
The Warriors say they are taking some cues from Newsom but that final word on their process will come from the office of San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
“Our plan is to follow the lead of the city,” Raymond Ridder, the team’s vice president of communications, told NBC Sports Bay Area on Tuesday.
That being the case, do not expect a full return to non-game basketball activities at Chase Center until this summer at the soonest.
While some consider Gov. Newsom exceedingly cautious, he has thus far been more flexible than Breed. As a former San Francisco Mayor, Newsom also understands Breed’s deeper concerns, citing the Bay Area as a region of “stricter guidelines” largely due to its relatively dense population.
“We are not telling locals that believe it's too soon, too fast to modify,” Newsom said during his Monday news conference. “We believe those local communities that have separate timelines should be afforded the capacity to advance those timelines.”
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For the San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, that means very carefully. Decisions in Breed’s office are made in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the San Francisco County health officer.
Like Newsom, Breed is providing multiple updates each week. She has on several occasions referenced the Spanish Flu pandemic, which came in two waves, in the fall of 1918 and the winter of 1919, killing about 3,000 people in San Francisco.
Safety measures, including masks, were utilized. At the first sign of a slowdown, citizens, including the mayor, began unmasking. It was a mistake, as the pandemic remerged with a vengeance. That history lesson clearly resonates with Breed.
“The last thing we want to do is roll back some of the gains that we've made by continuing to flatten the curve, even though we've not lowered the curve, it remains relatively flat,” she told ABC-TV on Tuesday. “That provides an opportunity to look at opening small businesses where they can do pickup and delivery, like candle shops and flower shops and some of our smaller retail locations within neighborhoods.
“It's important that we look at those opportunities,” Breed added, “but we (also) not believe it's OK that we just all of a sudden open our doors and get back to normal because the virus is still a threat and we can see it surge at any time."
The Warriors have a designated executive, Yoyo Chan, working as sort of a liaison with local, state and federal governments. As California businesses advance from one phase to the next, Chan, who has experience in government agencies in Oakland and San Francisco, will work with the mayor’s office to determine when and how the Warriors will proceed.
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The team’s business personnel have spent weeks formulating procedures, while communicating with NBA headquarters in New York, that can be rolled out before the doors reopen.
Among the measures expected to be in place before Chase Center reopens to team employees are continued social distancing and constant disinfecting.
The Warriors, according to Ridder, are not pressuring the city to reopen. Nor do they know which Phase will allow it. Their plan, for now, is to remain in communication with the city while preparing for the day they’re able to reopen to employees and, eventually, ticketholders.
“We’re basically saying to the city, ‘Here are our protocols that we are putting into place when our players and staff return to the practice facility,’” Ridder said.
That’s as far as it goes. For now. And the foreseeable future.
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