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The NBPA has no interest in having the NBA send the eight teams left out of the original restart to Orlando for an offseason training camp once the first group of 22 games are eliminated, sources tell ESPN. The concept is a non-starter for the union. The only viable solution is for the NBA and NBPA to agree to voluntary workouts in the team facilities. Several of the teams are frustrated and angry over how far they feel they're falling behind the teams in restart. "We are looking at nine months between games now, and if the season is delayed, we are looking at possibly a full year between competitive games," one GM told ESPN on Friday. "That's unprecedented in the history of the sport. We deserve help here."

The NBA is considering the possibility of bringing the eight teams who didn't participate in the restart to Orlando for a minicamp and scrimmages, sources tell Sam Amick of The Athletic. Six teams will leave Orlando at the end of the restart and the beginning of the playoffs. The NBPA has been skeptical of any basketball setting that doesn't replicate the conditions the NBA created in Orlando. The first round will begin on August 17th with the start of the second round and the addition of family members beginning on September 1st.

There is growing momentum that the Chicago Bulls will retain Jim Boylen as head coach for the 20-21 season due to financial concerns from the Reinsdorfs, sources tell Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times. Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley had previously begun to reach out through back channels to potential candidates such as Ime Udoka and Adrian Griffin. Karnisovas and Eversley received some negative feedback on Boylen from key Bulls players. The Bulls are valued at $3.2 billion and Boylen is owed just $1.6 million as one of the NBA's lowest paid head coaches. A sources says Boylen is confident he will retain his job and he believes he will also prove that he's the right coach for the Bulls.

The eight franchises that weren't included in the NBA's restart in Orlando now are pessimistic about the odds of a second site being created for minicamps and intrasquad scrimmages. There is also pessimism about even in-market minicamps for group workouts. "There's nothing happening," one general manager told The Athletic after a Tuesday call between the eight GMs and league officials. "It's a shame. It's a huge detriment to these eight franchises that were left behind." Sources say the National Basketball Players Association remains concerned about the safety concerns that would come with creating another location for the other eight teams to compete (Charlotte, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Minnesota, Cleveland, Golden State). NBPA prefers the idea of having in-market bubbles for individual team minicamps. The 20-21 season has a tentative training camp start date of Nov. 10th.