In addition to the three games postponed on Sunday, the league also announced two more postponements: Magic vs. Raptors on Monday, and Nets vs. Wizards on Tuesday (via Twitter).
The Magic are decimated by injuries and COVID-19 at the moment, hence the postponement. The Nets currently have 10 players in the health and safety protocols, although they did play Saturday night against Orlando, a 100-93 loss. The Nets started three rookies against the Magic, and their bench was comprised entirely of players on 10-day contracts.
As our JD Shaw tweets, part of their reason for the postponements is that many of the players who would receive 10-day contracts via hardship exceptions are participating in the G League showcase event, which makes it difficult to find immediate replacements.
ESPN’s Baxter Holmes tweets that 64 players and two head coaches have entered the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols over the past six days, which is approximately 13% of players signed to standard and two-way contracts, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN (via Twitter).
NBA is more worried about Christmas day games. Let’s see if they postpone those big money making games.
Well, since AD’s out for the Lakers, if the Nets don’t have either Harden or Durant back in time that Christmas Day will lose some of its draw for ABC.
the big draw is the Suns/Warrior game. last game was the biggest draw in the last 2 years.
Seems only logical to suspend all play till things settle down!
Why???
It’s flu season. COVID is showing it is going to spike every fall/winter just like the flu does. It’ll probably never settle down from here on out.