The North American Basketball League (NBA) has announced the postponement of the game scheduled for Sunday between Oklahoma City and Philadelphia due to the coronavirus, the Sixers not having enough players available while a minimum of eight per team is required to play.
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The North American Basketball League (NBA) has announced the postponement of the game scheduled for Sunday between Oklahoma City and Philadelphia due to the coronavirus, the Sixers not having enough players available while a minimum of eight per team is required to play.
The 76ers however had only five players on the list of unavailable the day before during the defeat in Memphis (106-104): the star Joel Embiid and Mike Scott, affected in a knee, Furkan Korkmaz injured in the groin, Seth Curry, who contracted Covid-19 and Frenchman Vincent Poirier his contact case required to remain in quarantine.
However, on a workforce of 17 players that left 12 operational. Neither the NBA nor the club gave more details, but according to ESPN, the postponement of this game is linked to the search for other contact cases among the players, following the loss to the Grizzlies.
Philadelphia’s next game is scheduled for Wednesday against Boston.
This meeting is the fifteenth postponed since the regular season of the NBA began almost a month ago, whose health protocols were tightened in the middle of last week.
AFP / New York (AFP) / © 2021 AFP
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