Basketball is a “get-to, not a got-to,” Monty Williams said as he addressed media for the first time from the NBA’s Orlando bubble on Thursday evening. It’s his way of looking at the relative risk and reward of what is certainly a strange endeavor on the part of the league at the Wide World of Sports complex.
The pleasure of competing as one of 400 or 500 of the best basketball players in the world can tether NBAers back to reality, and Williams saw the thrill of getting to be a team again and reconnect, even in the team’s first practice.