The NBA is spinning in the second postponement of the COVID-related game of the season, while the Philadelphia 76ers await the League’s decision to file a follow-up report from several players who shared closeness with goalkeeper Seth Curry, sources said. to ESPN.
The list of six players placed on the Health and Safety protocol based on a recent close contact with Curry, which proved positive for coronavirus, could leave them briefly with the eight players required by the League to start the game on Saturday. 15:00 against the Denver Nuggets of Philadelphia.
So far, the Sixers have six players at their disposal: All-Star striker Ben Simmons, centers Dwight Howard and Tony Bradley, rookie goalkeepers Tyrese Maxey and Isaiah Joe and guard Dakota Mathias.
The Sixers are awaiting the League’s assessment of the circumstances surrounding the seven players’ individual cases to see if at least two of them may be released on Saturday to avoid postponing the game.
NBA contact tracking guidelines could cause different differences for different players, including periods of isolation from zero to seven days.
After it emerged that Curry tested positive for COVID-19 early in the Sixers’ loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York, Curry was pulled from the floor and isolated, sources said. .
The 76ers had to wait for Friday’s test results at the team’s downtown Manhattan hotel before finally boarding a series of separate buses Friday at 11 p.m. to return to Philadelphia, they said. said sources.
The Nuggets flew to Philadelphia on Friday without the talented young striker Michael Porter Jr., who remains out of health and safety protocols for an indefinite period of time. The Houston Rockets-Oklahoma City Thunder had a postponed postponed evening game when the Rockets had only seven eligible players.