NBA News – Philadelphia 76ers
Sixers Await NBA Ruling As 7 In Protocol – The NBA is teetering on the season’s second coronavirus-related game postponement, as the Philadelphia 76ers await the league’s ruling on the submission of a contact-tracing report of several players who shared close proximity to guard Seth Curry, sources told ESPN. The Sixers’ list of seven players placed in the health and safety protocol based on close recent contact to Curry, who tested positive for the coronavirus, could leave them short of the league-mandated eight players required to start Saturday’s 3 p.m. ET game against the Denver Nuggets in Philadelphia. The Sixers also had one staff member test positive Friday, according to a source. For now, the Sixers are down to six available players: All-Star forward Ben Simmons, centers Dwight Howard and Tony Bradley, rookie guards Tyrese Maxey and Isaiah Joe and guard Dakota Mathias. The Sixers await the league’s evaluation of the circumstances surrounding those seven players’ individual cases to discover if it is possible that at least two of them could be cleared on Saturday to spare a postponement. The NBA’s contact-tracing guidelines could determine different clearances for different players, including isolation periods anywhere from zero to seven days. Read more at: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30677190/philadelphia-76ers-await-nba-ruling-saturday-game-vs-denver-nuggets (Adrian Wojnarowski/NBA Insider)
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