As the NBA regular season draws to a close, teams are looking for a vantage point, and there will certainly be some deliberate losses or something in order to avoid meeting which team to meet early. Today, there is another emergency in the East, New York has epidemic prevention regulations, Irving can also play in the home game, but he can not play at home with the Raptors.
The reason is the same as in New York City before, according to Canada's epidemic prevention regulations, from January 16 this year, players need to be fully vaccinated to enter the country. That means Irving can't travel to Canada with the team, and it would be a bit difficult for the Nets to meet the Raptors in the first game of the playoffs. Fortunately, the Raptors are currently ranked sixth in the East, half a win away from the fifth-place Bulls, and one win ahead of the Cavaliers behind them, and the ranking of these three teams will change.
In addition to the possibility of the Nets, the teams in front of them are certainly reluctant to meet them early, especially the 76ers and Celtics, who also have players who have not been vaccinated. In the past 24 hours, he asked the Celtics and 76ers if the entire team had been vaccinated, but both teams declined to respond, according to NBA correspondent Tim Bontemps. It also means that two teams, there are no whole team vaccinations, there are players who are not vaccinated.
Judging from the two teams' away games with the Raptors, the two teams did not have the main players absent, and in the last game between the Green Army and the Raptors, Tatum and Brown were absent from the rotation, not without vaccination. If it is only some role players, it will not have much impact on them, but if you can avoid them, you will definitely choose to avoid them and avoid some unnecessary troubles.
The current rankings in the East are also complicated, with only 1.5 wins between the top four Heat, Bucks, Celtics and 76ers, the Bulls, Raptors and Cavaliers 1.5 wins, and the Nets, Hornets and Hawks also having 1.5 wins.