Postponements Hit NBA as COVID-19 Concerns Intensify; Games of Cavs, 76ers, Nets Cancelled : NBA : Sports World News

The lethal coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the NBA, with COVID-19 outbreaks forcing the league to postpone a number of video games on Sunday. The Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Brooklyn Nets obtained quite a few optimistic assessments this weekend, with the NBA opting to reschedule their video games to a different date.

Multiple video games rescheduled as COVID-19 outbreak spreads

The NBA postponed Sunday’s recreation between Cleveland and Atlanta after Denzel Valentine, RJ Nembhard, Jarrett Allen, Lamar Stevens, and Dylan Windler had been positioned by the Cavs on the league’s well being and security protocols. They joined Isaac Okoro and Evan Mobley, who earlier examined optimistic for COVID-19 as properly.

The Hawks had been lucky that recreation was postponed as one among their key gamers additionally returned a optimistic check for COVID-19. Star level guard Trae Young entered the league protocols after testing optimistic for the coronavirus. It is extremely doable that Young may miss the Hawks’ video games towards the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, towards the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday, and even the much-anticipated Christmas Day showdown towards the New York Knicks.

Philadelphia’s recreation towards New Orleans was additionally postponed after the 76ers had bother discovering eight gamers to subject in that contest. Andre Drummond and Shake Milton examined optimistic for COVID-19 over the weekend and had been positioned by the group on the NBA’s well being and security protocols. Drummond and Milton joined Georges Niang within the COVID-19 listing, bringing the variety of Sixers gamers who’re optimistic with the coronavirus in the meanwhile to a few.

That is probably not a lot however a number of Sixers gamers additionally had accidents, with Joel Embiid, Danny Green and Tyrese Maxey all dominated questionable to see motion towards the Pelicans. Complicating issues for the Sixers was the truth that their G-League gamers had been in Las Vegas for the showcase, making it more durable for Philadelphia to get call-ups into city rapidly. That left the NBA with no different alternative however to reschedule the Sixers’ recreation towards the Pelicans.

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10 Nets gamers now in security protocols

Brooklyn’s dangerous luck with COVID-19 continued on Sunday with 10 Nets gamers now positioned on the NBA’s well being and security protocols. Among the gamers sidelined with the coronavirus are star gamers Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden. Irving, who continues to be unvaccinated, was simply reinstated by the group due to the Nets’ participant scarcity.

He wanted to check damaging for COVID-19 for 5 consecutive days to return to the Nets, however his comeback was derailed instantly with the optimistic analysis. The Nets managed to win two video games this week with an undermanned squad. The COVID-19 outbreak lastly prevented the Nets from fielding the required eight gamers, forcing the NBA to postpone their subsequent two video games towards the Denver Nuggets and the Washington Wizards.

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