There have been multiple players that have chosen to leave the NBA bubble in order to attend to personal matters. Los Angeles Lakers guard Alex Caruso is not one of them. He was set to attend his older sister Megan's wedding in Texas this past weekend, but Caruso had a last-minute change of heart and elected not to leave the bubble. He has his eyes set on a dierent kind of ring.

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There have been multiple players that have chosen to leave the
NBA bubble in order to attend to personal matters. Los Angeles
Lakers guard Alex Caruso is not one of them. He was set to attend
his older sister Megan's wedding in Texas this past weekend, but
Caruso had a last-minute change of heart and elected not to leave
the bubble. He has his eyes set on a di erent kind of ring.
"If I was on a team that didn't have title aspirations — a team trying
to hold on to the No. 8 seed or something — it might have been
di erent," he told ESPN's Zach Lowe on Tuesday. "But we have
worked too hard."
Caruso added that Lakers head coach Frank Vogel and general
manager Rob Pelinka had no problem with him leaving the bubble
to attend the wedding. The choice was fully Caruso's.
If Caruso would've left the bubble, he would've been forced to
quarantine for at least four days in addition to testing negative for
COVID-19. The Lakers informed Caruso that he was going to have to
quarantine for closer to 10 days if he left.
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2. Along with Vogel and Pelinka, Caruso also had the support of
teammates LeBron James and Anthony Davis in whatever he
decided to do.
"They supported my decision either way," Caruso said. "They also
helped me realize how important I am to what we are trying to do
here, now that [Avery Bradley] didn't make it and [Rajon Rondo] hurt
his hand. There is some added responsibility… They had my back. I
felt genuine support from the organization."
The wedding being in Texas may have made Caruso's decision that
much easier. It has had the fourth-most cases of any state in the
country since March. There have been almost 72,000 cases this
week in Texas.
Prior to the league putting the season on pause, Caruso was
averaging 5.4 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 35.5 percent
from three. Now, Caruso could be depended on even more with
Rondo going down with a hand injury.
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