On December 27, Beijing time, NBA celebrity Baxter Holmes released the latest set of data. Today, the NBA has a cumulative total of 24 players triggering health and safety agreements, setting a new single-day high this season. The previous single-day highest trigger record was 17. Holmes said that in the past 13 days, 11 days have reached double digits.
For the NBA, the current situation is becoming less and less optimistic. Previously, the US media had reported that there were many festivals in the United States at the end of the year, resulting in the inevitable phenomenon of personnel gathering, the NBA strengthened testing efforts, and encouraged players to vaccinate and inject, but now it seems that the number of daily triggers is still quite large.
Holmes also said that in the past 13 days, the NBA has cumulatively triggered the agreement with 160 players, with an average of 12.3 players a day. So far this season, a total of 197 players have been recruited, of which 184 occurred in December.
Today, the Suns, who had not previously had a player to trigger the agreement, were also recruited, and Crowder and Payton Jr. went into quarantine. Matthews of the Rockets triggered the agreement, Brooks and Melton of the Grizzlies triggered the agreement, bulls' ball brother and others triggered the agreement, Rondo of the Lakers also triggered the agreement, and The Warriors' Green triggered the agreement... This forced the team to step up their signing efforts, and multiple teams needed to sign some replacement players.
The Lakers are not planning to sign a second 10-day contract with Thomas Jr., but Chalania reported that several teams are expected to be interested in signing with Thomas Jr., after all, everyone is short of people now.