The NBA hasn’t had to postpone any games due to Covid so far in the 2021-22 after postponing 31 in 2020-21, but the specter of the virus is ever present. The league has had at least 34 breakthrough cases of vaccinated players testing positive, and that was before Dillon Brooks of the Grizzlies entered the health and safety protocols Thursday.
The Clippers have had Covid creep into their locker room in recent weeks. Nicolas Batum tested positive on Nov. 21, and then the team canceled its shootaround for precautionary reasons on Nov. 23 as players were in the process of arriving — Paul George said he was already at the facility.