The NBA wants all its teams to have precautionary measures in place by Tuesday to handle an outbreak of the coronavirus, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
A memo from the league office instructs the teams to make plans to reduce the size of their traveling parties and calls for mandatory distribution of hand sanitizer to players and staff. Players have already been advised to change the way they deal with fans, with autographs and handshakes being discouraged.
A conference call will be held Monday with doctors and trainers from all 30 teams, Wojnarowski adds. Teams are being instructed to have an infectious disease specialist on call as well as a nearby facility that can test for the virus. Teams are also asked to designate a limited number of employees who will be permitted to have close contact with the players.
Earlier today, we passed along a report that media members may be barred from locker rooms over coronavirus fears. A memo from the league office yesterday ordered teams to make plans to play in empty arenas if the virus outbreak becomes severe.
Where are they going to get hand sanitizer? Its sold out everywhere!
I got that good purell no store brand s**t for 50 a gram
And toilet paper 3$ a roll
Soap is x% as sure!
Hand sanitizer is about as effective against Coronavirus as a squirt gun on a 3-alarm fire.
Let’s try this again since the first one didn’t get accepted lol
I got purell 50$ a bottle and not the store brand crap
I drink way too much hard alcohol for any virus to survive in my body. I just plan to continue with that. Also, I have become very good at avoiding people over the years, so I have that going for me. Oddly enough, I have been unknowingly training for outbreaks like this for decades.
The whole thing doesn’t make real sense to me anyways. Started cause it was transmitted when someone ate a bat. Then got sick and gave it to someone else? When you get food poisoning and you’re around other people do they get food poisoning no cause they didn’t eat it unless they did as well. Or ecoli or salmonella. I’m in Washington and 107 people have gotten sick and 16 died so far sounds to me like the common cold
Food poisoning is unrelated; covid19 moves by touch or breathing. I don’t think it’s known how the jump to humans happened. Maybe the Chinese govt knows but they don’t say much.
But i heard bats taste like chicken yum!
Good stuff
China made a huge deal about Morey’s comments about Hong Kong but their citizens proclivity to eat anything including endangered species is going to cause much more damage to the NBA. It will probably ruin MIL’s best chance to win the title in 40 years.
if they decide to play games with no fans then you will see many players balk at playing and then the decision will be to cancel/suspend the remainder of the season
They’d still run the league with replacement players.