Canadian Luguentz Dort has become a key contributor to the Oklahoma City Thunder this year and is expected to get a full-time NBA contract
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00:00 Eric G, you have a question?
00:03 Yes, Sam.
00:05 One, is there a chance that Mo Cheeks or anybody else from the coaching staff won't be able
00:10 to sit on the bench?
00:12 And two, just to clarify on Lou Dort, was it your intent to sign him to a full NBA contract
00:18 had the season not been interrupted the way it was?
00:21 Sure.
00:22 So first question, we're still waiting for all of the different protocols to be presented
00:31 to us in terms of who goes and who doesn't go, et cetera, et cetera.
00:38 I think part of that will be there will be physicians involved in all of those protocols.
00:47 We're going to be bringing a very limited amount of people there, but again, that doesn't
00:53 bother us because everybody's coming with the same amount of people.
00:57 So that doesn't matter.
00:59 We'll make it work.
01:02 We don't have clarity on that yet, Eric, in terms of like who's going and not, because
01:06 they're still working through how many of those of the spots the team has flexibility
01:14 over.
01:15 And then from there, I think there's probably some other steps that have to be taken by
01:22 the party that's traveling.
01:26 Second question was about Lou.
01:28 Was it our intent?
01:30 Certainly we were going to look at all ways to figure that out, but obviously we didn't
01:38 get to that point.
01:41 We have to look at what these new procedures could potentially be.
01:45 As I said before, I don't know what they are, but now we have to just see what the options
01:51 are and then make our best decision there.
01:56 But he's clearly someone that we want to have with us going forward.
02:01 And that would be my expectation.
02:03 That would be my hope.
02:06 That could be something that happens in the short term.
02:11 It could be something that happens later.
02:12 I don't know.
02:13 We're just in an uncertain time.
02:15 But certainly he's a guy that we'd love to have with us, and we'll work to find ways
02:21 to make that happen.