The NBA will postpone Sunday’s game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Five Cavaliers players tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday morning, sources told Wojnarowski. One of those five players is center Jarrett Allen, sources told Wojnarowski. Allen is having an All-Star caliber season averaging 16.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocks.
The five players will join Evan Mobley and Isaac Okoro in NBA health and safety protocols, the sources said.
Earlier this week, league sources told ESPN that the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are discussing a plan that would require teams decimated by COVID-19 to sign additional replacement players to prevent games from being postponed. .
In the proposed plan, after the first COVID-19 case, a team would be allowed to add a 10-day player, league sources said, but after a second, third, and fourth case, teams would be required to add. to another player for 10 days. Teams would be limited to three replacement players, but with the new plan it would generally require teams to maintain enough depth so that the NBA is not forced to cancel or postpone games because some teams do not have the required eight healthy players. by the league.
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