The NBA is tightening up a second game related to a postponed coronavirus, as the Philadelphia 76ers await league rule over the submission of a detective report of several players who were close to guarding Seth Curry, sources told ESPN.
The Sixers ’list of seven players included in the health and safety protocol based on a recent close association with Curry – who tested positive for the coronavirus – could leave them short of the eight league-led players. required to start Saturday 3pm ET Saturday game. against Denver Nuggets in Philadelphia.
The Sixers also had a one-employee test test Friday, according to sources.
For now, the Sixers are down to six available players: All – Star forward Ben Simmons, substitutes Dwight Howard and Tony Bradley, rookie guards Tyrese Maxey and Isaiah Joe and guard Dakota Mathias.
The Sixers are awaiting the league ‘s assessment of the circumstances surrounding these players’ seven individual cases to see if it is possible that at least two of them will be cleared on Saturday to delay away. The NBA’s contact detection guidelines could detect different clearances for different players, including isolation times anywhere from zero to seven days.
After learning that Curry had put forward a positive test for COVID-19 early in a Sixers loss to the Brooklyn Nets Thursday night in New York, Curry was knocked off the floor and into solitude, sources said.
The 76ers were asked to wait for Friday’s test results at the team’s hotel in lower Manhattan before boarding a series of individual buses at about 11pm ET Friday for the drive back to Philadelphia, sources said.
The Nuggets were flown into Philadelphia on Friday without the talented young promoter Michael Porter Jr., who is still being put under health and safety protocols for an indefinite period of time, sources said.
An opening night game was postponed at the Houston Rockets-Oklahoma City Thunder when the Rockets only had seven fit players.