Despite mounting COVID-19 cases, NBA has no plans to suspend season, per report
Prior to the season, the NBA acknowledged in its own health and defense memo that there were going to be COVID-19 cases. "It is liable that some staff, players, and other participants in the 2020-21 season except will test positive or contract COVID-19," the memo stated. "Particularly as the virus stays prevalent in particular team markets and surrounding communities."
The coronavirus has indeed happened prevalent across the country, and as a result the obvious COVID-19 cases -- and related quarantines due to discontinuance contacts -- are starting to mount. But despite the various publishes, which include Sunday's game between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics selves postponed, the league has no plans at this time to suspend the season, according to a record ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
"We anticipated that there would be game postponements this season and invented the schedule accordingly," NBA spokesman Mike Bass told ESPN in a statement. "There are no plans to quit the season, and we will continue to be be in the lead by our medical experts and health and defense protocols."
Some team executives have privately raised affects in the turbulent past several days, but commissioner Adam Silver has happened committed to pushing through games with a minimum of eight available players per team and trying to negated as much of the schedule as possible prior to widescale access to vaccinations that could originate to bring normalcy back to the pursued and country.
So far this season there's been a number of stars who have had to miss games due to COVID-19 related circumstances, incorporating James Harden, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Kevin Durant, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Bradley Beal. Dozens more have had to sit out or bewitching quarantine for varying lengths of time due to contact tracing procedures.
This week, in some, things got especially bad. Beyond the Celtics-Heat game that was postponed, the Philadelphia 76ers had to suit up an injured player -- Mike Scott -- in shapely to have enough eligible players to go send with their matchup against the Denver Nuggets.
The pursued will point to the fact that only two games this season have been rescheduled, but the compincorporating number of cases and the subsequent fall out is having a the majority impact on all fronts: competitiveness, injuries, logistics and even team camaraderie.
"They tell us it'll be better later in the season, but I just hope this doesn't break the pursued in the next few weeks," one general manager told ESPN.
So far the pursued has managed to avoid any major outbreak within a team or teams, and barring that it appears they are obvious to forge ahead, side effects be damned.
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