High energy ahead! Playing is sometimes like that, but you can win on the midline.
Wei Shao, who had just played 42 minutes yesterday and passed the killer ball, woke up isolated.
With him triggering a safety and health pact with Bradley, the duo didn't travel with the team on a charter flight to Minnesota to prepare for tomorrow's away game against the Timberwolves.
Counting these two, the Lakers have triggered a health and safety agreement with five players, the other three being Howard, Munch, and Horton Tucker.
So the Lakers immediately signed a 10-day short contract with Thomas Jr. through a difficult exception.
Yesterday, Thomas Jr. represented the Nuggets' affiliates in the Development League, making his debut with 42 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
Getting the chance to return to the NBA, Thomas Jr. wrote on social media: "Thank you Lakers for giving me the opportunity to prove that everyone is wrong, let's open the whole thing!" ”
This short contract may change the fate of Thomas Jr., but for the NBA, their biggest headache is the invasion of the epidemic, and gradually there is a trend of uncontrollable.
At present, the entire NBA is under tremendous pressure to prevent the epidemic - 63 NBA players have entered the health and safety agreement list this season, and 47 new players have been added in December alone.
That's not counting Raptors president Ukeli, Pacers coach Carlisle, Kings acting coach Gentry, and the league's staff that doesn't do statistics.
One of the most obvious examples is the Nets' game against the Raptors. Less than 12 hours before that game, the team fell six players in one fell swoop: First Aldridge, Bemburid, Jevon Carter, James Johnson triggered the agreement, and before the game began, the Nets announced that Harden and Bruce Brown also triggered the agreement.
Coupled with the absence of Millsap, Irving and Joha, even if the Nets urgently shake from the development league, they barely managed to make up 8 people. 4 of them are rookies and 2 are still two-way contracts.
Before the game, Mills was even hesitant to change his shoes, "Sometime before the game, I glanced at Thiago (Split), do I still use shoes to change?" Can't fight today? ”
"Then we quickly got together and talked about it, and everybody meant, 'Come on, let's go up and play and enjoy the game.'"
In the end, Durant played for 48 minutes with a sore ankle, and played with the Raptors until overtime before finally reversing the victory. This match was jokingly called "Jedi Eight" by fans, which was quite tragic...
This day is also the worst day of the NBA epidemic. On the same day, 13 players entered the health and safety agreement, setting a new single-day high.
If the 8 or 9 people continue to play is the stubbornness of the Nets, then there are also teams that directly choose to lie flat, that is, the Bulls. With the Bulls triggering the league's health and safety deal reaching 10 players, they applied directly to the league to postpone two games for the Pistons and Raptors.
It is also the first time this season that there has been a postponement of the game. Last season, the number of NBA games was postponed to 31.
The first thing to emphasize is that triggering the health and safety agreement does not mean that the player is diagnosed with the new crown, and there can only be about one equal between the two. If a player can provide two negative certificates within 24 hours of triggering the agreement, the player can still return to the team.
At the beginning, Lao Zhan triggered the agreement because of the test, and then did 8 consecutive nucleic acid tests in 24 hours, and found that they were all negative, so he only missed one game and returned to the Lakers.
But conversely, if proof cannot be provided, then the player will be absent for at least 10 days.
In other words, if a player is absent for several days, it is likely to be diagnosed. It's just that the NBA, out of the protection of personal privacy, has always used health and safety protocols to describe it.
When all kinds of big names in the world have been recruited, NBA stars no longer shy away from this matter. But from DeRozan to Lavin, from Harden to Alphabet Brother, and now to Westbrook, it can be said that the NBA's epidemic prevention barrier is on the verge of breaking.
If you push back the clock, the outbreak of the NBA began during the Thanksgiving holiday.
As a traditional Festival in the West, many NBA players and staff members have attended the party, which more or less broke the "soft closed loop" of the NBA, so the NBA officially requires that all employees undergo nucleic acid testing from November 29 to December 2.
As a result, the test found that the number of infected players began to explode. Of course, these alliances have actually predicted. A general manager of an Eastern Conference team said in an interview: "We were told a few weeks ago that due to the holidays, the epidemic will usher in a small peak, not only in the NBA league, but across the United States, so this is not a sudden problem." ”
As a microcosm of American society, the NBA certainly cannot be left alone. After all, on December 16, the number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the United States increased by 137941 in a single day.
When the number of confirmed cases in the United States jumps up in units of 100,000 every day, it is only a matter of time before the outbreak of the NBA occurs.
In particular, most players are infected and are in an asymptomatic state. As Nash said today: "They're certainly not going to be allowed into the training ground, but if they don't have symptoms, they can exercise at home, and I don't know what type of equipment they have in their home or apartment." ”