The two basketball gyms inside the Weatherup Center on the Arizona State campus this week told one story: the uncertainty that comes with playing sports in 2021.
On the men’s half of the facility, coach Bobby Hurley’s team returned to practice after being forced to take a week off after one player and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
The Sun Devil men are scheduled to play UCLA on Thursday night, their first game in 22 days and just their eighth all season.
“I feel a great appreciation for the ability to be able to go to work,” Bobby Hurley said Wednesday, “to practice, to train these guys, to have a chance to compete with all the obstacles and the land mines that are out there.