Dallas coach Rick Carlisle received unexpected news Friday afternoon, testing positive for COVID-19 and finding himself quarantined in his hotel room, waiting and hoping to still make it to Madison Square Garden.
"In this year of the unexpected, coaches are now doing game-day testing with the players," Carlisle explained in a Zoom call from his hotel room. "I had an unexpected positive test this morning. There’s a chance and there’s a hope that it will be a false positive. I’m fortunate to have been fully vaccinated since January. This seems like possibly a mistake.
"For these reasons, obviously I’m entering protocols.