On January 14, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, before every game in the NBA, there will be daily new crown testing, if there is a positive problem in the test, it will be directly absent from this game! If the subsequent test is still positive, then it will completely trigger the health and safety protocol and miss a period of time, this test is actually good for the NBA, to a certain extent, to reduce the impact of the epidemic!
Recently, according to the famous Shams report, sources revealed that the NBA has notified teams that the daily COVID-19 testing of players, coaching staff and first-level staff will be cancelled after Saturday local time (January 16, Beijing time). If a person develops symptoms, has close contact, or receives instructions from the Alliance's office, they will continue to be tested for COVID-19!
This news actually has an impact on the league, without pre-game detection, the vast majority of players will not miss the game because of triggering health and safety agreements. After all, the vast majority of these positive players in the NBA have no symptoms, or have some mild symptoms, if there is no pre-game test, there may be some players who have not been detected after recovering, which is still a bit scary!
But since so many players in the NBA have triggered health and safety agreements, it also means that many teams don't have any threat of being positive again. If the daily test is cancelled, if there is a player who is positive and not checked out, it may also have a certain impact on some players who want to sign a 10-day short contract, after all, the opportunities for them are getting less and less!