The NBA informed its 30 teams on Sunday night that players will be permitted to travel out of their respective club’s market beginning on Monday, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
As Charania explains (via Twitter), a player who leave his team’s city must do with consultation from the franchise. Players will be required to keep their teams up-to-date on their whereabouts and practice social distancing, while teams are being encouraged to establish daily check-ins for basketball- and health-related updates.
The league is still recommending that players remain in their home team’s market, according to Tim Bontemps of ESPN. Additionally, any players who were advised to self-isolate due to possible exposure to the coronavirus must continue to do so until they’ve been cleared by a medical professional, Bontemps notes.
Additionally, even though players are being permitted to travel, they will not be allowed to leave North America due to outbreaks in Asia and Europe, Bontemps writes.
Gonna be a Nationwide quarantine coming in a few days all because paranoid people thinking this it’s the end of the world, coronavirus is gonna kill millions, and treat us like the meteor treated dinosaurs.
People are losing their minds.
I know, my real worry is about the economy, food & the panic, these are the real pandemics, the virus is just a cold/flu!
Agreed. 99% of the damage done in this fiasco will be done by the overreaction to a common flu, not by the virus itself
This is dangerous nonsense to spread.
A bunch of dead Italians would disagree with you.
Italy imported 500,000 Chinese laborers for their “belt and road” infrastructure project. Seems pretty dishonest of you to leave that out when you discuss the virus in Italy. Unless you’re so ignorant you didn’t know
More people have ALREADY died from coronavirus than in 9/11 ever will. Even somebody dumb as **** should understand that this is just the beginning. But of course, some people play cool and still call this a hype or paranoia. It’s unfashionable how ignorant some people are.
Unfathomable is what it should say ..
Way to mix & compare global/nation-wide stats with 3 planes, 3 buildings, and first responders + residual effects from close proximity to an event.
This might be the single-most hysteria-driven nonsense I’ve seen so far.
That’s true of every flu season genius. 30,000 people die on average every year from the flu. And that’s just America, not globally. It’s also insanely dishonest of you to quote the global death toll, when 90% of those are from China and there’s barely 100 deaths in this country. But then, if you actually told the truth, you couldn’t cause a panic.
I really hope everyone who downplays this ends up regretting it. It is shamefully ignorant, self-centered, and immature. The same people who are always on about patriotism and the flag don’t seem to know what real patriotism entails – sacrifice for the greater good.
You tell em comrade. Some people just won’t go to the gulags like they’re told.