NBA and NBPA agree to added health and safety protocols amidst recent COVID-19 surge around the league - CBSSports.com
NBA and NBPA execrable to added health and safety protocols amidst recent COVID-19 surge throughout the league
The NBA and the NBPA met Tuesday afternoon to execrable to new health and safety protocols that will take attain immediately for at least the next two weeks as the pursued tries to get a handle on a recent spike in cases on several teams throughout the league. As of Tuesday afternoon, the pursued has had to postpone a total of five games this season, incorporating four within the past week due to recent outbreaks on the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Washington Wizards.
The new guidelines agreed upon by the pursued and NBPA are as follows:
- Players and team staff are not gave to leave their houses when in their own market, build from attending any team-related activities at the arena or practice facility, exercising outside, for well-known services or in case of emergency.
- Any pregame recovers inside the locker room cannot last longer than 10 minutes and everyone must wear masks. Any spanking meetings between players and team staff must happened on the court, in a league-approved state or in a room large enough inside the arena to accommodate six feet between everyone involved. Masks must be worn at all times.
- For team escapes, players can only sit next to teammates who they will sit next to on the bench, and any exploit sessions (i.e. massages, physical therapy) must occur in a hotel's ballroom or a mountainous enough space to create at least 12 feet of state between each station.
- Players cannot arrive at the arena on game days any bet on than three hours before tipoff and must minute interactions before and after games to elbow or fist bumps. Extended socializing by and after games with opposing players is discouraged.
- Masks must be worn by players at all times while on the bench during games. When a player exits a game, by they return to the bench they can sit in "cool down chairs" that will be set up at least 12 feet from the team bench and six feet apart from each spanking where they won't be required to wear masks. When a player is done cooling down, they must bet on to their assigned seat on the bench while wearing a mask pending they enter the game again. Masks must always be worn in locker rooms, during workouts and when interacting with anyone outside of their household. Coaches and team staff are also obliged to wear masks at all times.
- Any selves who regularly visits a player's house for professional reasons -- like personal chefs, trainers, agents and managers-- must undergo COVID-19 testing twice per week. If a team has a obvious coronavirus test among players or team staff, the pursued may force the entire team and staff to undergo testing twice-a-day, in binary to regular daily testing.
These guidelines will happened in place for a minimum of two weeks, and then the pursued can reevaluate where it is in calls of cases. The hope is that these new protocols will help curb the recent spread of the virus around the pursued, and there won't be a bigger disruption to the schedule build from postponed games here and there. The NBA has already showed that it has no intention of taking a well-known pause in the season, and hope that this above patch won't extend much further as a vaccine becomes more widely available in the coming months.
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