It’s been interesting watching the recent league-wide surge in players entering the NBA’s health & safety (read: Covid) protocols. While some teams have been more impacted than others (like the Bucks), a day doesn’t go by where another handful of players get sidelined either due to a positive Covid test or contact tracing. The NBA is allowing franchises to make up the roster gap with hardship exception contracts, allowing games to go on in severely watered-down form. Still, surviving these kinds of situations intact may take some sort of miracle:
Five more players have tested positive on the Cavaliers, sources say, joining Evan Mobley and Isaac Okoro in the league's health and safety protocols.