As the NBA continues to strengthen it Health and safety protocols to fight the pandemic COVID-19 In progress, the league will require players to wear masks KN95 The Kf94 in all cases where necessary, sources told ESPN.
The policy will take effect sometime next week, the sources said, as the league is in the process of handing out the masks to all 30 teams before they are required to wear them. The NBA also plans to enforce its current mask-wearing rules more strictly in scheduled games for Friday.
According to League Health and Safety Protocols, when players, coaches or staff have to wear them, even when sitting on the couch during matches, they now have to wear the masks KN95 The Kf94. Immediately after exiting the games, players can only sit in a cool down room to catch their breath, but once they do, they must return to the couch and wear a mask.
This is just one of many changes the NBA has made in recent weeks to tweak its protocols and keep the season going while there are still more than 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day, the data tracker said. Center for Disease Control and Prevention and since the League has had to postpone nearly two dozen games. Others include preventing players from having guests in their hotel room on the go, and limiting interactions with each other on the field before and after matches.
The NBA had to postpone the 23rd game of the season on Monday evening, when the game between the Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets was called off due to a non-final test within the Pistons’ traveling group, Adrian said. ESPN’s Wojnarowski, who later reported that the team had traveled to Salt Lake City and will be able to play Tuesday night’s game against the Utah Jazz as scheduled.
In addition, the League has begun to rearrange games that had previously been postponed in an effort to make up for lost ground in an effort to get each team to the 72 games originally scheduled. One of those rescheduled games, between the Washington Wizards and the Portland Trail Blazers, takes place on Tuesday-evening.
La Liga is also about to take off its bubble from the G League in Orlando, with games starting next week and continuing for the next several weeks.