The National Basketball Assn. has postponed tonight’s Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder game, the first of the season for both teams. The Rockets do not have the league-required eight available players because of Covid-19 tests and restrictions.
Three Rockets players had tests that were positive or inconclusive for the coronavirus. Four other players are quarantined under the contact tracing protocol, and Chris Clemons is injured.
The postponement will likely not be the only game adjustment to come on the schedule. The league has already started later than usual and cut back on the number of games. It has also mandated that no fans are allowed to attend.
However, it is not isolating teams in a bubble, as it did for the playoffs in Orlando. That means players and staff run the risk of exposure even under the best of precautions.
Daily testing and severe contact tracing are in line.
Three Rockets players had tests that were positive or inconclusive for the coronavirus. Four other players are quarantined under the contact tracing protocol, and Chris Clemons is injured.
The postponement will likely not be the only game adjustment to come on the schedule. The league has already started later than usual and cut back on the number of games. It has also mandated that no fans are allowed to attend.
However, it is not isolating teams in a bubble, as it did for the playoffs in Orlando. That means players and staff run the risk of exposure even under the best of precautions.
Daily testing and severe contact tracing are in line.
- 12/24/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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