Lol how are you going to accuse me if quoting you for no reason and the respond to the reason I quoted you LOL. No they dont. Your crappy eye test doesnt match their record, nor does it match their defensive efficiency against good teams. So what you are saying is absolutely false. Their team looks way better with Harden. Sheesh.
Did you follow Covid 19? You can have it more than once and there are cases who had the British and South African mutations at once. And I am not trying to scare you. And you do not get to decide the 'Unlikely possibility' part. The NBA is a multi million to billion enterprise and not some amateur league so they are being super cautious.
If they were being super cautious, why did they let him play at all? They should have ruled him out from the beginning, but once he played it didn't make sense to pull him a second time cuz he already exposed both teams. Even Harden said it didn't make sense cuz he was in the locker room with them, and that would be part of contract tracing.
It’s fairly surprising that the NFL somehow just got through an entire season... a sport with huge rosters, more physical contact within the games, and questionable leadership up/down that league without any relatively huge disruption... While basketball and baseball continue to pull circle-jerk stunts like letting players play parts of games, only to be pullled mid-game, and then go through potential issues after the fact. How about if a player is suspected of coming into a contact who may or may not have something... you don’t let them play till you get 100% confirmation. Players are going to have to miss games here/there. It’s part of it all. If the NBA wants to play 70+ games (when really less than 50 only required to separate haves from have nots), and if baseball wants to play 150+ games, players and teams are going to have to get used to these sorts of scenarios.
He was in the locker room with the Nets pre game. Then they held him out of the first quarter. Then he came in and played the second and third quarter versus the Raptors. If they were really concerned wouldn't they have stopped that game? He just infected both the Nets and Raptors. Then the Nets played the following night versus 76ers. Seems odd because of contact tracing none of them shoulda been able to play.
Wasn't he also held out of back to backs because they wanted to rest his legs....... No idea but the Nets were going against the rules, I am not sure if the league might cater to them. Not going to watch every Nets game because I really do not care a bit. Maybe the Raps game was pre-quarantine.
Have you checked out Giannis and Curry's stats as opposed to Harden? What you posted had a lot of opinion built in and while you are at it check out KD's stats before he went to GSW.
He was in contact with the person in question Friday. Then was allowed to play 2 quarters then pulled. This situation was handle really poorly. They should have postponed the game if they thought he was a risk.
The NBA and MLB teams travel alot more and have more games. Their chances of getting and spreading the disease are higher than NFL teams (16 regular-season games)
Agreed... but some of the risk is mitigated by having less players to keep track of and less physical contact/closeness within games. And I’m not harping on the infectivity risk as much as the “process” once infectivity is suspected. There were NFL teams that had outbreaks and required postponing/rescheduling games. Yet still there were no cases of player X started a game, played half the game, then was taken out when a positive test came back. Granted, there was probably some cases that slipped through the cracks... but overall, they got through it. The best you can do is test players... monitor close contacts... and then quarantine players if any of the above is in violation. Both basketball and baseball has featured cases of players initially being cleared to play but having to take out a player mid-game because of some delay in test results or new test results returning within the game.
