The Timberwolves–Grizzlies game, scheduled for Friday evening, has been postponed in accordance with health and safety protocols, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania (Twitter link).
Minnesota is the latest team with COVID-19 issues. The Timberwolves do not have the required eight players available to play the game due to ongoing contact tracing, according to a team press release.
The Timberwolves previously announced that power forward Juan Hernangomez would isolate for at least 10 days due to health and safety protocols and that point guard Ricky Rubio would miss Friday’s game due to those regulations. The postponement suggests that Minnesota’s COVID-19 issues may have worsened.
This mark the 13th postponement in the league this season. The Wizards, Suns, Heat, Celtics, Mavericks and Rockets have been in the same predicament, forcing at least one postponement for those teams.
All of the previous postponements can be found here.
I know they don’t want to pause the season, but that’s gonna be a lot of games to make up in such a little time with certain teams.
They really need to go back to a bubble format for the playoffs. Doubt the players are going to accept that again.
Kat just posted on Instagram he tested positive.
Sorry, didn’t mean for my comment to be a reply to yours.