Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the NBA has closed the practice facilities of all 30 teams.
However, they recently announced that teams in states with eased stay-at-home orders could re-open, a group that does not include the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers practice facility resides in Los Angeles County, which has been one of the strictest in terms of forced social distancing. The current stay-at-home orders are set to end on May 15 while the league will be allowing teams to re-open their facilities beginning on May 8.
Because of that, the Lakers have reportedly been in contact with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office about the possibility of re-opening their facility on May 8 instead of waiting until May 15, according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
The Lakers have been in contact with the Los Angeles mayor’s office to discuss the possibility of opening their practice facility for players before the current shelter-at-home order for L.