This year's NBA game has evolved into a war of attrition. The schedule is just over 1/3, and 86 players have already triggered the league's health and safety agreements. In the past week, as many as 50 times have entered the health and safety agreement, including Durant, Harden, Alphabet Brother, DeRozan and other star players.
According to statistics, in the first 6 weeks of the season, only 16 players have triggered the league's health and safety agreement. Since entering December, this number has surged. Seventy NBA players have been put into health and safety agreements this month, 50 of them occurring within the past week.
Nowadays, the league will have a new recruit every day. Just like today, basketball star Durant triggered a health and safety protocol and entered a state of self-isolation. Durant is the eighth player in the Nets to trigger a health and safety agreement, which also puts the team in a situation of lack of major generals.
Currently, players missing in the league include former MVP players Alphabet Brother, Durant and James Harden, as well as former All-Star players Ade, Dwight Howard, Zach Lavin and Paul Millsap, among others. The Bulls, Nets, Lakers, Knicks and Bucks are some of the most affected teams.
According to NBA rules, games are only postponed if the team has fewer than 8 players available, but the problem has been largely avoided due to the NBA's introduction of difficult exceptions, and teams can get temporary places for registered players if the team breaks out or suffers multiple serious injuries. Currently, the Bulls, Nets, and Lakers are all using this privilege.