Beijing time on December 16th! Today, according to Stein, due to the epidemic, Ontario, the region where the Raptors are home, announced a new prevention and control policy. Starting with Sunday's game against the Warriors, the Raptors reduced the number of fans at home to 50%, making the Raptors the first team in the NBA to reduce the number of home players affected by the epidemic in the new season
In addition, according to Shams, the NBA is in talks with the players' union to conduct more coronavirus tests on players. "Michelle Roberts, executive director of the players' union, said that given that dozens of players have entered into health and safety agreements in recent days, the NBA is in talks with the players' union to conduct more COVID-19 testing on players on all game days and training days, regardless of whether players are vaccinated or not," he wrote. ”
During this time, the NBA has had a number of teams affected by this aspect. Before the Bulls were even forced to apply for a postponement of the game because of too many isolated players, back to yesterday's Game between the Nets and the Raptors, the Nets triggered a health and safety agreement for 7 players on the team, and many people, including Harden, could not play, and in that game, the Nets ended up playing only 8 people.
According to ESPN's report today, sources revealed that the Nets used a difficult exception to sign guard Langston Galloway, and it is reported that Galloway and the Nets signed a 10-day short contract.
Of course, there are other teams that have also been affected to varying degrees, with players such as Howard and Munch of the Lakers. Today the 76ers officially announced that the team's forward George Niang triggered the health and safety agreement.