Beijing time on December 19, the Nets have recently been plagued by the epidemic, the team began with 7 players in succession triggered a health and safety agreement, did not expect Durant and Irving to be recruited, the whole team up to 9 people triggered, coupled with the injured Harris and Clarkston, this game against the Magic, there will be as many as 11 players missing the game.
The first players to trigger the health and safety agreement are Harden, Aldridge, Bemburi, Bruce Brown, Jervan Carter, James Johnson and Millsap, the seven have missed the past 2 games and will also miss today's game against the Magic. Originally, Durant missed the game because of a sore right ankle, but he did not expect that before the game, he triggered the league's health and safety agreement, and he also needed to enter the quarantine, becoming the 8th player in the team to be recruited, which is a bit tragic.
And that's not all, the more tragic ones are coming. The Nets also officially announced that Irving triggered the league's health and safety agreement and also entered quarantine. Yesterday the Nets just announced that Irving was officially recalled and will play away games for the team, but they didn't expect to be recruited just after returning, which is a bit tragic. At present, Irving has not been vaccinated, still does not meet the epidemic prevention regulations in New York, but the team is facing a shortage of personnel, can only choose to re-enable him, did not expect that he was also recruited at this time, the date of return is going to be postponed.
Subsequently, the rookie Sharp also triggered a health agreement, and he was also unable to play in today's game.
Subsequently, the Nets announced before the game that Clarkston would also be absent due to left wrist pain, which also meant that he became the 11th player to miss the Nets. In the game with the Magic, the Nets will only have 5 players left to play according to the initial roster list, namely Griffin, Mills, Thomas, David Duke, Edwards, among which Mills was initially arranged to take a break, seeing that no one was available, directly canceled his rotation plan, and could only continue to play. In order to meet the league's minimum number of people, the Nets have also signed consecutively in the free market, having previously signed Galloway and now signing three consecutive players.
The Nets have officially announced that the team has signed 10-day contracts with James Ennis III and Shaquille Harrison. After Durant and Irving were recruited again, the Nets signed Winnion Gabriel with a difficult exception, an interior player, and the team really had no one to use.
With gabriel, the Nets have 9 players to play today, 4 on 10-day contracts and 3 for rookies. Fortunately, this time the opponent Magic is also facing the same dilemma, depending on who can win the three teams of the two teams this time.