Doc Rivers on Montrezl Harrell: 'When he's ready, he'll come back'

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00:00The LA Clippers are in the bubble but they're still missing two of their most

00:03important players. Montrez Harold and Lou Williams who combined for 37 points off

00:08the bench and are the highest scoring bench duo in NBA history. Their presence

00:13was clearly missed against the LA Lakers and we still don't know exactly when the

00:17both of them are coming back. Now Lou Williams is obviously gonna miss

00:21another game against the Pelicans and may miss one more just because of

00:24conditioning. Now Harold is a different story. Harold left the bubble because of

00:29a family emergency on July 17th and he hasn't returned yet and it turned out

00:33that that family emergency was that his grandmother just passed away. Someone

00:37who he was incredibly close to. Doc Rivers was asked you know in a pregame

00:42media with us that when do you expect Harold to return and he said he doesn't

00:45know. He said when Harold is ready he'll come and the only thing he can do is

00:50when he's whenever he comes he's gonna embrace him and with open arms. And it's

00:57quite an unfortunate situation because you basically have to choose between the

01:01team or grieving because the moment Harold goes into the bubble he won't be

01:05able to see his family anymore. He won't be able to grieve with anyone. It's a

01:09much different situation than what players are normally used to.