The numbers in the NBA indeed keep getting higher and may continue that way for the foreseeable future.
With over 100 players out this month alone due to COVID, the league continues to press on, playing 5 games on Christmas Day.He just missed seven games while completing the NBA's
“I think any logical person would worry how far is this going to go, and there's a couple teams that have quite a few people in the protocols. ... You don't know where it's going to go," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. Here’s what the Orlando injury report looked like on Sunday: Six players out because of virus-related problems, another sidelined while he completes the process of getting cleared from a protocols stint, and another six players out with injuries.“You expect the unexpected,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said.
Talks between the NBA and the NBPA have been going on for several days about a potential shortening of the return-to-play protocols, though nothing has been finalized. In Chicago, where the Bulls just had 10 players go through protocols and are now without coach Billy Donovan as he navigates them, it had been pointed out that Lonzo Ball was the lone player to appear in every game for the team so far this season.
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