In light of the still-developing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak nationwide, the NBA may keep media out of locker rooms and limit team locker room accessibility to just players and team personnel, per Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium (Twitter link).
The NBA has been making other preparations to protect players and fans from the spread of the coronavirus, including potentially staging games without fans. Lakers All-Star LeBron James has openly pushed back against this notion.
Earlier in the week, it was reported that coronavirus could adversely affect the NBA’s pre-draft combines, on-site workouts and international scouting events. League measures taken could include limiting those events or cancelling them entirely.
Around the NBA, the coronavirus outbreak has already made an impact on how players interact with fans, as The Athletics’s Mike Vorkunov detailed.
How about clearing out the photogs beside the stanchions. The cheerleaders can stay; they always look well-scrubbed. And pretty.
Really the first couple rows of seating around the players are unnecessary.
A clear plastic shield behind the bench should be there already. It’s only humane.
How about you clean out your ears
Are you say only talk of lockerrooms are acceptable?
Or should I go spastic at the mention of Lebron like many posters do?
Asparagus
“well-scrubbed. And pretty.”
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Scrubbed is good now. And the photog group usually looks ragged with a lot of surfaces presenting.
Still not sure about the ear talk.
Thank goodness LBJ keeps the fans in mind, as clearly the league don’t care about no fans!
All the combines & scouting don’t matter much, if by now teams don’t know who they like or wanna choose then they are in trouble.