After all, the Nets still lost, and yesterday the Nets lost at home to the Magic 93-100, but this battle also turned into a fierce game. The Magic team first had 7 players who could not play due to injury, and 5 players triggered the health and safety agreement, and the Nets also had 12 players who could only watch from the sidelines, and even the veteran Patty Mills who planned to take a break had to cancel the rotation to hang up.
So far this season, the Nets' luxurious lineup has frequently appeared in the situation, and now it is reduced to signing a short contract to support. The epidemic has been invading the NBA league since March 2020, and after two seasons of struggle and a lot of effort, it seems to be slowly getting back on track. Before the start of the new season, the NBA League's epidemic prevention is relaxed, and the league has made it clear that it will not force players to vaccinate, but a few teams such as the Knicks, Warriors, and Nets still cooperate with local requirements to be vaccinated to allow participation in home games.
In the Nets' previous game against the 76ers, head coach Steve Nash said before the game that he didn't know if he could continue to rely on Durant like this, and it didn't feel right anyway. Not long after Nash's words, Durant finally ushered in a break, but this is not the way the Nets want to rest, just yesterday morning the Nets officially announced that Durant triggered a health and safety agreement, will miss the game against the Magic, into the quarantine list, but also has Irving, who has just returned to the away game.
In the past few days, Irving and Durant have been the 8th and 9th Nets players to trigger the health and safety agreement, and rookie Thorpe has subsequently joined their team, the Nets currently have 10 people quarantined, plus the injured Joe Harris and Clarkston, the Nets team of 20 people, only 8 people can play, which is only enough to make up the league's required minimum number of people to play.
The Nets are going to cancel Ers' rotation to barely make up the NBA League's 8-man playing list, and if anything happens to the Nets in the next few days, then the Nets may have to apply for a game extension.
The Nets' 8 players have 3 rookies, in addition to 3 players are the Nets in the recent difficult special case signed back 10-day short-term players, then the Nets only these two veterans can play, respectively Mills and Griffin, and these two were originally rotating players on the team. The Nets will undoubtedly have a significant decline in combat effectiveness in the next period of time, and I am afraid that the Nets will continue to lose the battle.
Another point is very worth mentioning, Durant experienced a rupture of the Achilles tendon in the Finals of '19, although it is now a strong return, but Durant's health has always been a major concern for the Nets. It can be said that the Nets are currently only Durant this straw, and this season is less than halfway, Durant will be loaded with combat, in the second half of the season Durant's burden may continue to increase, if Durant appears in the season early reimbursement situation, then it is estimated that the Nets' championship dream will also be lost in advance.