Following interim head coach Alvin Gentry‘s positive test earlier today, a couple of Kings players have entered the league’s health and safety protocols as well. Marvin Bagley III will miss at least Wednesday’s game after being placed in the protocols, as will Terence Davis, per James Ham of ESPN 1320 and Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee (Twitter links). Anderson notes that Davis told reporters on Oct. 15 that he had recovered from the virus just before training camp opened.
It’s not clear whether Bagley and/or Davis tested positive, but if they did, they’d have to sit out at least 10 days or return two consecutive negative coronavirus tests at least 24 hours apart before being cleared to exit the protocols.
Here are some more updates relating to COVID-19:
- Starting power forward Kyle Kuzma will be available for the Wizards Wednesday after returning two negative tests 24 hours apart, Josh Robbins of The Athletic reports (Twitter links). Kuzma attended the team’s shootaround on Wednesday morning.
- The Lakers have been testing everyone around the team after having three players test positive. Play-by-play announcer Bill Macdonald is asymptomatic and isolating after returning a positive test, per Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times (Twitter link). Kyle Goon of the Southern California News Group tweets that assistant coach Phil Handy has also entered the protocols. A team spokesperson said that other “staff members” have entered the protocols as well, but did not disclose the number, per Bill Oram of The Athletic (via Twitter).
- As a result of rising cases in Ontario, the province will be re-instituting limits on fan capacity in large venues. Thus, the Raptors will be limited to 50% fan capacity at Scotiabank Arena, beginning on Saturday vs. Golden State, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment announced. The Raptors, who are owned by MLSE, will also launch “Operation Mask Up (or out),” which will require all attendees to strictly adhere to all mask-wearing protocols or risk ejection from the building, per the announcement.
- With cases rising throughout the league, the NBA and NBPA are in talks to increase player testing to include all game and practice days, The Athletic’s Shams Charania writes.
Jeez so many players have gotten COVID recently…
How many are false positives. Kuzma was out a couple days. Lebron same..
That’s two (2) false positives.
All that means is we have no idea how many false positives. It might mean LeBron and Kuzma were intelligent enough to get the vaccine
They are just as likely accurate positives in a vaccinated body that is cleared out quickly due to a robust antibody response.
Enough with the Covid BS… These are healthy young adults. End of discussion. Play basketball for god sake.
@MiddleIn… You are sooo very right!
So when you make sense in here you will get pelted, so don’t worry, at least we know you are the one making sense!
If only he did make any sense.
Yup you guys are so right, who gives a crap about the fans and coaching staff that could be vurnerable to this virus?
Sounds like it wasn’t end of discussion. So that’s one lie for Middlein.
Talk to Joel Embiid, Eduardo Rodriguez, or Freddie Freeman about being healthy young adults and getting COVID.
What is the logical outcome of “let them play”? COVID-19 runs rampant through the NBA, affecting players and staff differently, some with long term effects and maybe a fatality or two. Players bring it home to their families including children who cannot be vaccinated yet so the carnage spreads to friends and family.
Players can be reinfected with different variants so the process continues again. El Don and his ilk want to turn the NBA into a chain store where employees have to work no matter what their health status.
Well let’s stop all sports. We really don’t need to pay players millions anyway.
They need to go one step further and make vaccines mandated for all players like they have with officials and staff then they need to test more stringently. We can’t close down all sports again as it leads to thousands of people from staff to ushers to concession workers to ticket takers to security etc not to mention the players out of a job.