RUSSELL WESTBROOK HAS CORONA

[Unknown Poster]

I'm so jealous seeing Korean Baseball games with fans and Rugby matches in New Zealand with full attendance

Seeing that makes me wanna leave this country.

We may never get sports back for a full year or more

 

[tjax03]

They’re not going to cancel the season, Silver is already aware that positive tests are going to happen...

Going to be just like the MLS, expect some teams to back out and a lot of postponements

With teams backing out is it even a season or just a bunch of exhibition games?

The rockets are legit playoff contenders. Without Russ and Harden the whole thing is an asterisk.

 

[god shamgod]

How is that sounding stupid? Bron is the face of the league right? If he says the season should be cancelled and players are on board then silver will take it into serious consideration..

So tell me wtf is stupid about the season continuing in a state with one of the highest infection rates and more players testing positive?

how about you shut the fukk up bum ass nikka

do you know how much money the nba would lose if they canceled the season? It would have long term ramifications that would affect future salary cap, player salaries, sponsors etc. bu but but bron simple mutha fukka shut up

 

[Apprentice]

Sum y’all nikkas be talking as if you’ve never worked in a business a day in your life

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Smh this aint good

this was expected....you think the NBA didn't plan ahead for this?

Once someone tests positive for the virus, the protocol lays out a several-step process that person will have to go through:

• They will be placed in "Isolation Housing," which will be a house, hotel or other facility that is different from the individual's previous hotel room, at a location in which no individuals who have not tested positive are residing.
  
  
• They will be administered a second COVID-19 test as soon as possible to guard against the possibility of a false positive. If that second test comes back positive, the person will remain in isolation housing.
  
  
• If the second test comes back negative, a third test will be administered between 24 and 48 hours after the first test. If that test also comes back negative, the person will be allowed to reenter the NBA campus. If it comes back positive, the person will remain in isolation.

Once someone tests negative twice in a span of more than 24 hours, they will be allowed to leave isolation. However, though players will not be forced to be quarantined after that, they will have to wait for a two-week period -- either from the first positive test if the player remains asymptomatic or from the resolution of symptoms -- to pass before undergoing a cardiac screening. This is in accordance with the CDC's cardiac-screening guidelines.

Phase 2, which starts June 23, will have players being tested every other day, as well as the two days prior to when teams are scheduled to leave for Florida. Players' first test will be both a test for COVID-19 done via a shallow nasal swab and oral swab and an antibody test done via a blood draw. The COVID-19 test will be repeated every other day, and the antibody test will be repeated only if a player tests positive.

During Phase 3, which will be July 1-11, players will begin mandatory individual workouts at team facilities. Group workouts will remain prohibited, though the number of players allowed in a facility at one time will increase from four to eight. Head coaches will be allowed to participate in and watch individual workouts.

Phase 4 was split into two parts: July 7-11, which includes the teams' travel to Walt Disney World and the period afterward when they will be quarantined, and July 9-21, which covers the practice time teams will have once players and staff complete their quarantine period.

During the first part, for a player to be allowed to travel to Florida with his team:

• He must have not tested positive for COVID-19 since league-wide testing began.
  
  
• If he tested positive, he must have satisfied the criteria for the discontinuation of quarantine.
  
  
• He must not have lived with anyone who has recently tested positive or exhibited symptoms associated with COVID-19.

Once teams arrive in Orlando, players and staff will be isolated in their rooms until they have two negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests at least 24 hours apart, which means anywhere from 36 to 48 hours in the hotel rooms. After two negative tests, they will no longer have to quarantine.

NBA details virus testing, amenities for Orlando

 

[En Sabah Nur]

I know people who got it and didn’t need hospitalization but now can barley walk 10 blocks without being short of breath. It’ll be interesting to see what happens

Depending where you are 10 blocks is a pretty long walk bruh

 

[360Waves]

Adam Silver need to Bush the fukkin season like seriously.. but of course he’s going through with it cause Bron wants to play

You dudes really believe one man has the ability to control whether or not the NBA season goes on

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

You dudes really believe one man has the ability to control whether or not the NBA season goes on

He, along with Nike, did have a very large say in the season continuing.

 

[Brehcepticon]

Young Sabo has been sabotaged

 

[IllmaticDelta]

this season might not even make 2 games.

if the players/everybody follow the plan, they should be alright

NBA Has Yet To Have Positive COVID-19 Test Within Bubble

The NBA has yet to have a positive COVID-19 test from within their bubble in Orlando as of at least Sunday afternoon, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN.

"So, from what I understand and testing is going on constantly," said Windhorst on his podcast. "It's going on every single day. So I can't speak to the accuracy to this second, nor can I speak to the accuracy of it to when this podcast publishes and to when you hear this podcast. But from what I understand, there's been no positive tests in the bubble as yet. None of the people that have come into the bubble have tested positive. That's what I've been told."

The MLS, however, has had an outbreak of positive tests as they also restart in Orlando.

"Whereas in the MLS, there were people who tested positive immediately. I don't think they got them in there. This may not be apples to apples. This may be apples to oranges. The NBA may have done a better job getting their people in healthy."

NBA Has Yet To Have Positive COVID-19 Test Within Bubble

 

[Sugar]

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[jilla82]

I don't know how they find a grey area with this. Either cancel the season or continue to act like this won't affect the infected players in the long run (which it will according to the science) and play.

what science?
Sounds like Russ doesnt have any symptoms.

 

[EBK String]

Having this season is ridiculously negligent. These athletes make millions but are treated like livestock. If Bron would have came out and said he wasn't playing there wouldn't have been a season he is this desperate to get a 4th asterisks ring?

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

This is Bron’s best opportunity to secure another ring and he is doing everything in his power to seize on the chaotic nature of this season.

Everybody's injured or playing with corona in their system. Bron should be ashamed of himself. Not surprised tho. Not a competitive bone in his body

 

[Bledswole]

Listen any player that’s not in Orlando already has it.

Russ
Harden
Bledsoe
And whoever else not there has it it’s obvious