Lou Williams Leaves the Bubble

Sources: Lou Williams has left the NBA Orlando bubble

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

00:04 in Orlando.

00:05 The Alley Clippers are now down a handful of players in the bubble, including Ebisu

00:09 Zubats, Montrezl Harrell, Patrick Beverly, Landry Schamett, and now Williams, who is

00:14 out due to personal reasons.

00:16 It's an excused absence.

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

00:20 to deal with right now.

00:22 Ebisu Zubats is out for unknown reasons.

00:25 And Landry Schamett after being tested positive for coronavirus on July 4th.

00:30 He posted on Instagram a couple weeks ago, or about last week actually, talking about

00:34 how his quarantine period was almost over.

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

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

00:43 scoring a team-high 22 points.

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

00:49 Clippers' success.

00:50 The situation is a bit concerning for LA.

00:53 They're missing a lot of very key and important players right now.

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

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

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

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

01:10 they were before.

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

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

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

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

01:24 Players have lives, they have children being born.

01:26 They have to leave the bubble numerous times.

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

01:33 He'll be leaving for that birth as well.

01:35 So hopefully this is an early sign that the bubble will collapse in the near future.