Lou Williams Leaves the Bubble

Sources: Lou Williams has left the NBA Orlando bubble

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00:00Sources have confirmed to allclippers.com that Lou Williams has left the NBA bubble

00:04in Orlando.

00:05The LA Clippers are now down a handful of players in the bubble, including EBC's Zubats,

00:10Montrezl Harrell, Patrick Beverly, Landry Schammett, and now Williams, who is out due

00:14to personal reasons and an excused absence.

00:17In terms of their players, Montrezl Harrell and Patrick Beverly both have emergencies

00:20to deal with right now, EBC's Zubats is out for unknown reasons, and Landry Schammett,

00:25after being tested positive for coronavirus on July 4th, is expected to join the team

00:30soon.

00:31He posted on Instagram a couple weeks ago, or about last week actually, talking about

00:34how his quarantine period was almost over.

00:36He's expected to join the team soon, but is still out of practice this morning.

00:40Williams was just the leading scorer for the Clippers in their first scrimmage game on

00:43Wednesday, scoring a team-high 22 points.

00:45He also is the current reigning 6th man of the year and a very integral part of the Clippers'

00:50success.

00:51The situation is a bit concerning for LA, they're missing a lot of very key and important

00:55players right now.

00:56While there was a good chance that many of them returned for opening night against the

00:59Lakers on July 30th, they're missing invaluable practice time right now.

01:03The Clippers never really had a chance to have a fully healthy roster for training camp

01:06in October, and this is a chance to have one instead now that they're even worse off than

01:10they were before.

01:11Doc Rivers confirmed offhand that Williams is no longer in the bubble.

01:15At the end of team's media availability, Rivers confirmed off-camera that Williams, Harrell,

01:19and Beverly are not in the bubble right now.

01:21Over the past week, some of the problems in the bubble have clearly been exposed.

01:24Players have lives, they have children being born, they have to leave the bubble numerous

01:27times.

01:28On Friday morning, Marcus Morris mentioned that his second son will be born in September.

01:33He'll be leaving for that birth as well, so hopefully this is an early sign that the bubble

01:36will collapse in the near future.