The NBA has postponed the next three games for the San Antonio Spurs after four players on the team tested positive for COVID-19, the league announced Tuesday.
The Charlotte Hornets, who played the Spurs on Sunday, are in the contact tracking phase and will postpone their next two games, the NBA said.
The Spurs have been in quarantine in Charlotte since Sunday’s game, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The affected San Antonio games were scheduled for Wednesday for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Saturday for the New York Knicks and next Monday for the Indiana Pacers.
San Antonio’s next possible game is Feb. 24 at the Oklahoma City Thunder, which means the Spurs will have more than a week between competitions, joining the Washington Wizards and the Memphis Grizzlies as teams that will support this one. situation this season.
Hornets’ affected games were scheduled for Wednesday against the Chicago Bulls and Friday against the Denver Nuggets.
Charlotte’s next possible game is now Saturday at home against the Golden State Warriors, in what would be Stephen Curry’s annual return to North Carolina, where he grew up.
Postponements announced Tuesday push the total number of games that have been withdrawn this season due to positive testing or contact location issues to 29, including the Spurs ’game at the Detroit Pistons that was due to be played Tuesday night. The NBA canceled that game Monday.
The NBA does not reveal which players tested positive, but when announcing the latest postponements it was said that the Spurs had positive tests among the players and did not mention the coaches. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich announced last month, on his 72nd birthday, that he had received the vaccine that protects against the effects of COVID-19.
The Spurs were without guard Quinndary Weatherspoon for their game Sunday against Charlotte due to the league’s COVID-19 protocols; Weatherspoon had played 10 minutes Friday in Atlanta against the Hawks, and was then marked by protocols over the weekend.
Discarding due to the protocols may suggest any number of things, including a positive test, a suspicion of a positive test, or contact tracking data that demonstrates that a player may have been exposed to a person with COVID-19.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.