The NBA does not plan to stop the season because of the pandemic. The league commissioner, Adam Silver, has been resounding in this regard in the interview he gave to the ESPN program “NBA Today” that he presents Malika Andrews.
“There are no plans at this time to stop the season“, has assured Silver, who has indicated that”we’re going to have to learn to live with this“when referring to the pandemic situation that the planet is going through.
The visible head of the NBA has spoken openly: “We have analyzed all the options, but frankly, we do not understand what logic a pause would have at this time“, he insisted.
Today’s situation is becoming complex. There are around 80 players in the Covid-19 protocols and 7 matches have already been postponed, a figure that can easily increase seeing the rate of contagion that is occurring among players at the moment, although the number of postponed matches is a lot. lower than that registered last season at this same season.
Silver has recognized that right now 90% of the positives for Covid-19 that are occurring in the NBA belong to the omicron variant, a variant that is already causing havoc in the United States, where this Tuesday more than 1,800 people died from Covid -19.
The number of casualties due to Covid-19, which is affecting more Eastern teams, has led the NBA to change market regulations in order to facilitate the incorporation of players and not leave the squads disheveled, which is leading to a barrage of hires.
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