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Report: NBA to Test Players, Staff for COVID-19 Starting June 23

The NBA will begin testing players and staff that will take part in the league's presumed resumption in Orlando on June 23, according to a memo obtained by ESPN's Zach Lowe.

Per Lowe, players and "essential team staff" will be administered both a COVID-19 test and an antibody test on June 23.

Members of the traveling party will then be given another COVID-19 test every other day, as well as another test for each of the two days prior to its departure to ESPN's Wide World of Sports campus. All teams are expected to arrive in Orlando between July 7 and July 9.