After 15 days since the 2020/21 NBA season kicked off, the coronavirus he is hitting the different teams in the North American basketball competition hard. To the Philadelphia 76ers cases are now added those of Boston Celtics, who could play today’s game with only eight players available from the squad.
As the journalist and insider of the NBA in The Athletic, Shams Charania, has recently reported, the player who has come off the Celtics worst has been precisely their star, Jayson Tatum. The player will have to undergo a 10-14 day quarantine due to the league’s safety and prevention protocols against COVID-19.
Boston Celtics All-NBA star Jayson Tatum is expected to enter quarantine and miss 10-to-14 days due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 9, 2021
It is not entirely clear if Tatum has caught the coronavirus or has been in very close contact with someone who tested positive. Already in the last Boston Celtics game, where they beat the Washington Wizards, the franchise had to play without Tristan Thompson, Robert Williams III or Grant Williams for the same protocols.
But the matter of the match against the Wizards does not end there. This morning the team decided to leave Bradley Beal without playing in the loss against the Miami Heat. The reason is that in Washington there is concern about how close Beal was to Jayson Tatum last Friday, who had to defend in the match.
NBA suspension lurks
With more and more cases such as the Philadelphia 76ers or Boston Celtics, the possibility of seeing how the NBA begins to consider the idea of suspending the season indefinitely, as was done in the past year, and waiting for the pandemic situation improves throughout the United States.
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