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SACRAMENTO — The typical offseason story goes down like this: Player X loses weight. He professes to be in the best shape of his life. And he attributes these changes to a new diet and training regimen.

That typical offseason story does not to apply to second-year Warriors second-year forward Jordan Bell. He dropped pounds off his 6-foot-9, 224-pound frame for reasons that do not fit that cliche storyline.

“I look skinny, huh? I haven’t eaten right lately,” Bell said following the Warriors’ summer-league win over Sacramento on Tuesday. “Just being so busy and trying to get everything and going home for camps. I had to go home for the Warriors and I forget to eat. I’ll do better at that.”

Bell certainly did not forget to drink when he chugged Hennessey throughout the Warriors’ championship parade. So hows does Bell forget to eat?

“I forget to eat all the time,” Bell said. “It’s just like that. Growing up, I didn’t have much to eat. So I learned to survive without eating.”

The Warriors obviously do not think Bell can survive as a professional basketball player without eating. So since summer league play, the Warriors have told him to increase his calorie consumption by eating healthy snacks in between meals. To subscribe to the Planet Dubs podcast click here.

Extending his range

Still, Bell showed plenty of progress in the Warriors’ win over Sacramento on Tuesday. He posted eight points on 4-of-5 shooting, six rebounds, seven assists and two steals. Bell and third-year center Damian Jones helped limited Kings rookie and No. 2 prospect Marvin Bagley Jr. to seven points on only a 3-of-6 clip. And Bell showed off his range, both with a 23-foot jumper as the shot clock expired and a pair of jumpers along the post and baseline.

“I’ve been working on shooting during the season,” Bell said. “Obviously during the playoffs, it wasn’t the time to show it. Summer league is the best time to show it.”

Can Bell show it during the regular season?

“I’ve been given the green light in summer league,” Bell said. “You have to talk to [Steve] Kerr.”

Kerr, the team’s head coach, wasn’t at the Warriors-Kings game. But Warriors assistant Willie Green was as the team’s summer-league head coach.

“We’ll let him shoot some of those. He’s been hitting it,” Green said. “It’s summer league and a chance to stretch yourself a little bit. JB sometimes has to take some of those.”

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