The NBA will take an important step to resume its season if it gets a landing of the 22 participating teams without too many casualties among the essential personnel At the end of the week. The first team will land in Orlando, Florida, this Tuesday
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arrivals will last until Thursday.
The league assumes that there will be players who will not be able to travel with their companions after in the last week there have been several positives among the members of different teams. The last to announce the closure of its facilities have been the Milwaukee Bucks y los Sacramento Kings, which they did on Sunday. Throughout the past week, the Nuggets, the Clippers, the Heat and the Nets They also chose to temporarily close their facilities.
Of all these affected franchises, the players and members of the coaching staff who have to travel this week but obtain some positive proof in the previous 48 hours will not be able to do it with the rest of their colleagues. It will be another problem that franchises will have to face in the 20 days of preparation that they will have inside the bubble.
The laggard members of the theoretical 35-person trip they must seek life, and so the league has made it known. If a player tests positive in one of the two tests prior to his team’s flight, he must join them in Orlando after the illness has passed. The options that the league gives are three: returning with a private plane, traveling by car, or flying commercial. Of course, you must pay out of pocket.
If traveling by car or private plane, the affected player must pass two tests of the COVID-19 before being able to join his companions, and if he does so by commercial plane, he must pass a third negative test to confirm that he is free of the virus.
Although these delays of 48 or 72 hours seem littleThe truth is that franchises face an unknown challenge. Manage your group during the peak of the course in a social environment of isolation and with few recreational options. Laggards will have less time to regain their best shape and thus avoid the risk of injury. To all this, the climate of concern and the impact that the situation may have on the mental health of athletes must be added.
Every day of preparation will be essential for franchises, with the first training camps with five against five scheduled for this Thursday.
It should be added that the situation in the United States is diametrically opposite to that of Spain when the Endesa League course resumed. In our country, the final phase was carried out in 14 days when the virus remitted throughout the territory. The NBAOn the other hand, not only will he travel amid shocking numbers of contagion, but also will focus for 70 days in Florida, one of the territories where the coronavirus is causing more damage.
Clean landing and airtight insulation, as experts, teams and players have already been saying, will be key to ensure that the bubble is effective and be able to compete again.
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