On December 22, Beijing time, the NBA executives confirmed that the cases of the Olmikron strain have accounted for 90% of the NBA, occupying a dominant position. Compared with the previous coronavirus, Omi kerong is more contagious and more harmful, but even so, the NBA still refuses to suspend the season and is preparing emergency measures to prevent the year-end war from being postponed.
According to Holmes, as of the time of his writing, the NBA has cumulatively triggered health and safety agreements for 117 players this season, and this month alone (December), 101 new players have triggered agreements. The new crown is developing too fast, but after the league has evaluated all the options, it still decided to continue the season.
They prepared contingency measures, mainly to temporarily change the league's signing rules, allowing the team to sign one replacement player for every two players who trigger the agreement, two for every three, and so on. These new rules are tentatively valid until January 19 next year. The salaries of these replacement players will not be included in the team's annual salary and will not increase the team's luxury tax. This is certainly good news for a team like the Nets that has already paid a luxury tax, and there is no limit to the number of appearances of two-way players this season. It also allows the team to avoid 8-man appearances without minimum requirements as much as possible.
Before these changes, the NBA was forced to postpone seven games, and now they have no new games to postpone for the time being, even though there are still a lot of players on each team to trigger the agreement.
Judging from the teams that participated in the year-end war, more than 30 players have triggered health and safety agreements, and the Nets are the most serious, with 10 people triggering. Of the 10 teams, only the Suns and Jazz currently have no players to trigger the agreement.