NBA players will be required to return to their home markets no later than November 30 in order to begin undergoing coronavirus testing, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
According to Charania, players will be permitted to start conducting individual workouts at their team’s facility once they’ve returned three negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests for COVID-19. Those individual workouts will take place between December 1-5, per Charania. Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports adds (via Twitter) that there will be a four-player, four-staffer max during those sessions.
Once players have repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 and are cleared for individual workouts, the plan is for teams to begin group practices between December 4-6, says Charania.
Preseason games will tip off as early as December 11, so teams will have no more than about a week of group activities before embarking on their preseason schedules.
How about Chris Paul? Did he our did he get special treatment to join his team. The nba is a joke and will never have me as a fan! They baby stars and it’s time for the nba to step up and stop allowing the stars to run it! The nba is a joke and ain’t anyone worth 50 mil a year
If you weren’t an NBA fan you wouldn’t know Chris Paul got traded and you wouldn’t be looking at NBA reports lol
I am donk but ain’t anyone worth even 15 mil to play a season
You play 5 months and have a sneaker deal and so on and so forth and ain’t anyone worth 50 mil to play an nba season! These nba players are soft these days and can’t even compare to Jordan or Magic
The NBA brings in $8 Billion in revenue on average a season. Where should that money go then? All to the owners that don’t do crap? Or to the players that people tune in to watch and work their butt off for more than a decade to get to that point. And people tune in to see the stars. That’s why the NBA is the best basketball league in the world.
“NBA players are soft these days” makes you sound like a grumpy old Scottie Pippen who can’t accept the old days are over. Watch the sport or don’t, just don’t complain about it to people that do enjoy it.
Then you seem to be taking an excellent advantage of all the free time you now have not being an NBA fan. Complaining and whining to other people about the money other people make is far more useful for you than watching basketball.
The check in for the Bucks shouldn’t take to long as they only have 7 or so players on their team.