76ers quarantine after learning of positive COVID test during Nets game

The Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets could also be prone to a possible COVID-19 outbreak.

The NBA has been principally profitable with containing a COVID-19 outbreak a couple of weeks into the 2020-21 season. Now the league faces its first huge check in stopping one, and it’s already wanting prefer it’s failed that check.

Based on The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the Philadelphia 76ers are being pressured to quarantine in New York following Thursday evening’s street recreation towards the Brooklyn Nets.

The explanation? There was a constructive coronavirus check revealed throughout the recreation, which can now require contact tracing. Per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the participant in query was Seth Curry, and the group discovered of the constructive check close to the beginning of the sport.

Sixers guard Seth Curry returned a constructive check for the coronavirus, which the group discovered of close to the beginning of a loss in Brooklyn tonight, sources inform ESPN. He went to an isolation room instantly, and thereafter left enviornment separate from group.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January eight, 2021

The 76ers and Nets may doubtlessly be in danger

How the Sixers and Nets may nonetheless play Thursday evening’s recreation is mind-boggling, particularly as soon as the group discovered that Curry had examined constructive. What number of of his teammates had been uncovered at that time? And by extension, what number of Nets gamers had been doubtlessly uncovered to any Philly participant who might have gotten it from Curry?

We hate to suppose in such paranoid phrases, however that is the type of diligence and self-discipline it takes to comprise a worldwide pandemic that’s already operating rampant by america. After the NBA had a lot success with the bubble in Orlando to complete the 2019-20 season, many puzzled how it will keep these lofty requirements to forestall the sorts of outbreaks we’ve seen tear by the NFL, MLB and faculty soccer.

Apparently, the reply just isn’t a lot will change from these botched makes an attempt by the opposite main sports activities leagues. Enjoying that Nets-76ers recreation on Thursday was downright irresponsible, and it ought to’ve been canceled or postponed as quickly because the Curry information was confirmed. Thankfully, he didn’t play within the recreation, however even when the league in some way will get off straightforward within the type of zero gamers contracting COVID-19 from Curry, that is an extremely dangerous search for everybody concerned in that decision-making course of.