The NBA is faltering in the second postponement of the COVID-related game of the season as the Philadelphia 76ers await the League’s ruling on filing a contact tracking report from several players who shared closeness with baseman Seth Curri. say sources on ESPN.
The Sixers’ list of seven players placed in the health and safety protocol based on recent close contact with Curry, who tested positive for the coronavirus, could leave them short with the eight players required by the League to start the game. Saturday at 3 p.m. against the Denver Nuggets in Philadelphia.
For now, the Sixers have six players available: All-Star winger Ben Simmons, pivots Dwight Howard and Tony Bradley, rookie escorts Tyrese Maxey and Isaiah Joe and escort Dakota Mathias.
The Sixers are awaiting the League’s assessment of the circumstances surrounding the individual cases of these seven players to find out if it is possible that at least two of them could be released on Saturday to avoid postponing the game.
NBA contact tracking guidelines could determine different free spaces for different players, including periods of isolation from zero to seven days.
After it was learned that Curry had tested positive for COVID-19 at the start of the Sixers’ loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York, Curry was taken off the floor and isolated. said the sources.
The 76ers had to wait for Friday’s test results at the team’s hotel in lower Manhattan before finally boarding a series of separate buses around 11 p.m. Friday to return to Philadelphia, they said. say the sources.
The Nuggets flew to Philadelphia on Friday without the talented young winger Michael Porter Jr., who remains on the sidelines of health and safety protocols for an indefinite period of time. The Houston Rockets-Oklahoma City Thunder had an opening night game postponed when the Rockets had only seven eligible players.